Another sign of the fuzzy boundaries between living and non-living is that viruses share a lot of their genetics with their host cells. A study of protein folds, structures that change little during evolution, in thousands of organisms and viruses, found folds shared across all and only 66 that were specific to viruses. The Royal Institution of Australia has an Education resource based on this article.
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Instead, they must invade a host organism and hijack its genetic instructions. The nucleic acid may be single- or double-stranded. The entire infectious virus particle, called a virion, consists of the nucleic acid and an outer shell of protein. Are viruses alive or dead? Most biologists say no. Even though they definitely replicate and adapt to their environment, viruses are more like androids than real living organisms.
Viruses are non-living entities and as such do not inherently have their own metabolism. However, within the last decade, it has become clear that viruses dramatically modify cellular metabolism upon entry into a cell. Viruses have likely evolved to induce metabolic pathways for multiple ends. Viruses undergo evolution and natural selection, just like cell-based life, and most of them evolve rapidly.
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