20 Things You Didn’t Know About Viruses

1 Viruses are not alive: They do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals. 2 Viruses are not exactly dead, either: They have genes, they reproduce, and they evolve through natural selection. 3 Scientists have been debating this issue since 1892, when […]

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