What's the difference between a seed and a virus?

>>8545132
Seeds don't replicate inside other organisms. They're fundamentally different.

>>8545132
a virus spreads quicker making making them more lethal, in terms of reproductive rate

>>8545132
nothig their all the same bra

>>8545132
viruses look cool and spaceships

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>>8545132
One is a virus and the other one is a seed

>>8545641
But which is which?

>>8545132
Is a virus alive?

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>>8545132
One is a seed, and one is a virus. This is science.

>>8545693
no

>>8545693
yes

>>8545693
maybe

>>8545641
>One is a virus and the other one is a seed
>>8545695
>One is a seed, and one is a virus.

I'm getting mixed messages here, guys. Can you be clearer?

Seeds are tasty
Ive never eaten a virus

A virus injects its DNA strands into host cells of other organisms making these cells produce the protein which the rna strand corresponds to.

A seed is a sleeping cell that starts multiplying when it is ready. There you go op.

>>8545693
"life" does not have any fundamental, objective meaning. It is frequently a useful simplification for mental categorization, because it neatly summarizes a set of characteristics that are frequently found together. But when dealing with cases that have only some of the characteristics of life, and some of nonlife, the limitations of this familiar mental category become clear and it is no longer particularly useful. In these cases, any sharp boundary drawn between life and unlife is necessarily arbitrary and artificial.

Viruses are one of those cases where it becomes obvious that "life" isn't actually a fundamental category and that the normally-clear edge between life and unlife is in fact populated with edge cases.

As it happens, the arbitrary boundary has been set such that viruses are not officially "alive", but this is a decision of convention rather than anything particularly meaningful. It's like the semi-arbitrary borders between closely related species or subspecies, or the ruling that Pluto is not a planet, or the division of the ocean into "Atlantic" "Pacific" and "Arctic" oceans. We set the borders based solely on what's useful rather than any objective philosophical Oracle.

>>8545695
That must be the ugliest plot I've ever seen.

>>8545693

I don't know

>>8545693
It's a Turing Machine.

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>>8545693
Is a seed alive?
Is an orange alive?

>>8545132
Why do regular polygons / polyhedrons in living things freak me out so much?

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>>8545693

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>>8545693
Are memes alive?

>>8545693
eh not really but depends on your definition of life
>>8546745
that's assuming that a virus is alive in the first place. i feel like because nature doesn't usually allow for such "perfect" shapes that when you do see one it's eerily off-putting