Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25045079-20140829212910/@comment-80.91.192.50-20141112173046

Shadow at Morning wrote:

Scientists do know what life is,

OK, and what is life? If you say scientists know, than say what they know. No matter what you say, its allways is some creatures, that not fit in this difinition. There is non-cell life form(not only viruses), without metabolism, with afagia(some insects do not eat on one of living periods), without centralised body structure(like a Volvox) and without reproduction ever(in colonies of ants or bees onli queen and one or more males can have reproductive functions, rest - haven't).

IamThorn wrote: I thought viruses were never alive, they have no DNA only RNA, which they pair with host cells to reproduce, they cannot mate with each other,

lol. its just LOL, dude. 1st. there is RNA viruses and DNA viruses, oh, btw, there is retroviruses, they translate own DNA to RNA in cells, and later use that RNA for DNA syntesis. and 2nd, thre a lot of liveng being that no need pairs to reproduce.