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Viruses are not technically alive—they require a host to reproduce. Freeloaders with ambition.

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Viruses don’t metabolize or reproduce on their own; they hijack a host cell’s machinery to make copies. Whether they count as “alive” depends on definitions, but they sit on the boundary between chemistry and biology.

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