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33. As is (in the OP) speaking of virus as having "species."

Wed Apr 22, 2020, 01:11 PM

Apr 2020

I do not know of any experts using the word species to define virus variants, mutations, strains or types. There are four basic types of viruses called, for convenience, families and different individual types are often just labeled virus.

Species is a term specific to living organisms of somewhat definable units of high genetic similarity. Virus may be a third form of being (living, non-living and virus) and are non-living biologically dependent, and life affectable, and more akin to nano-machines than life and not divided into species (even though Linnaeus system used the the term species to denote even mineral types).

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As is (in the OP) speaking of virus as having "species." StClone Apr 2020 #33

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