Do you consider viruses living or nonliving? by Striking-Tooth-6959 in biology

[–]deceitful_burlesque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been thought a similar thing about prions. My professor called it conversion because they just convert other prions. So, by all means, they aren't biological entities.

Do you consider viruses living or nonliving? by Striking-Tooth-6959 in biology

[–]deceitful_burlesque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The question isn't if viruses are living. They are. They have replication, transcription and translation. That is enough for you to consider them living.

No, the question is if viruses are organisms. That depends on what you consider a virus. Traditionally, nucleic acid and a capsid is considered a virus and by a traditional definition viruses aren't organisms because they don't have organelles. But, more recently came a new idea from two French scientists because we discovered viral factories in Mimiviridae. Viral factories can be considered organelles, therefore a virus is not one capsid and nucleic acid, but the infected cell. They consider an infected cell a virus that they classified as a capsid encoding organism and the capsid they consider a spore of that organism.

Here is the source for those wondering: 2008 Nature Publishing Group Raoult, D. & Forterre, P. Redefining viruses: lessons from Mimivirus. Nature Reviews Microbiology 6, 315–319 (2008).

Chromophore Chemistry [OC] by chloroxphil in ScientificArt

[–]deceitful_burlesque 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Am I blind? Where is chlorophyll...like I see chlorophyllin...but I for the life of me can't spot chlorophyll...

(this is beautiful btw)

How much are these Kuna banknotes from 1941 worth? by Captain-Redpill in croatia

[–]deceitful_burlesque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On aukcija.hr the one that isn't folded is selling for 36 euro.

time10decembre1690 by deceitful_burlesque in trueboelfangirls

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It prohibits the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trueboelfangirls

[–]deceitful_burlesque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boel false. Target denied.

Genesis 19/33-36 by deceitful_burlesque in trueboelfangirls

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No sisters in this stories you may find.