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6. A biovirus isn't alive for the same reason a computer virus isn't a computer
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 03:26 PM
Apr 2020

Like a computer virus, a biovirus is more like a rogue program expressed in protein and nucleic acid. Without an actual living cell to infect it's just an inert particle. Just as a computer virus is nothing but meaningless data until it is expressed by being run on a computer, at which point it corrupts the functionality of its host machine to make more of itself.

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