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How are viruses like living organisms?

April 26, 2017Biology Living Mathematics organisms viruses

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How are viruses like living organisms?

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They’re like living organisms in that they are made up of the same “stuff” as other living things (proteins, sugars, RNA and/or DNA). Also they reproduce like certain other living things. But you are quite right, most scientists agree that viruses are not “living”.