Question

Considering the new definition of life, all but one piece evidence supports the fact that a virus must be referred to as an organism. That is:

Answer 1

another word for life is bio and why is virus referred as an organism is because is a living organic and is a natural resource that is seen by micro scopes

Answer 2

Answer: Protein fold

Viruses are considered to be living by some of the scientists because they carry the genetic material, participate in the reproduction and evolve by the process of natural selection but it lacks the lacks the cell structure that is required for an organism to be count as a living organism.

Now a new study that uses a protein fold as a evidence and suggests that viruses are living. These are encoded in the genomes of the viruses. These are the structural building block of the proteins, which are known to give them a complex 3-D structure. By comparing fold structures they find an evolutionary relationship between folds and organism.