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The importance of identification of a certain microorganisms can range between a life threatening diseases to a creation of certain antibiotic. Understanding the principals of living microbes and identifying my unknown bacteria through numerous biochemical and metabolism tests, with the outmost confidence, Proteus vulgaris had the precise qualifications. The point of this report is to further explore the identification of my unknown bacteria by revealing the results of the experiments and comparing them to the other six known bacteria: Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Alcaligenes faecalis, Escherichia coli, and Proteus vulgaris that were used in the lab, as well as comparing and

Viruses are a small infectious agent that can only multiply inside the cells of living organisms although unlike bacteria, fungi and parasites viruses are not

Fungi are multi-celled organisms that form a third Kingdom of life, along with the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom.

Viruses are known as intracellular parasites, and they invade host cells. When they invade, they live inside the cell Daempfle, 2016). Viruses are not living organisms. Viruses sit and wait to be introduced to a host cell. Once they are introduced, they invade into the cell’s nucleus and become energized. Therefore, viruses can not carry out life functions, while outside of a host cell. Nevertheless, viruses are not non-living matter and viruses have genetic material, they make proteins, they mutate, and are able to reproduce. Viruses are most commonly species specific. This means that only one type of virus will infect one type of cell host. It has been deduced by scientists that viruses use the docking system to attach to host cells. However,

A virus is a small capsule that contains DNA or RNA, viruses, unlike bacteria are not self sufficient and need a host in

The argument on whether viruses are considered living or dead has been debated in science for years. While this topic has been extensively researched, a conclusion has yet to be reached. However, from my own research, I concluded that viruses are non-living. To better understand this topic, I will discuss cell theory, the differences between a prokaryote and a eukaryote cell, and the structures and functions of a nucleus and cell wall organelles.

A virus is a capsule containing genetic material, even smaller than bacteria. The main task of virus is to reproduce. However, viruses need a suitable host to

Viruses are microscopic organisms that can only replicate inside cells of the host organism. Viruses for the most part are so small you would have to use a conventional optical microscope. Viruses can infect any and all types of organisms, such as animals (to include Humans), plants and even bacteria as well as archaea (archaea constitutes a domain or kingdom of single-celled microorganisms). There are millions of different types of viruses. With viruses being believed to be the most abundant type of biological entity, they can be virtually found in every ecosystem on the planet.

After looking at many articles I believe that viruses are not alive. Even though in the beginning I believed they were. For an object to be alive it needs to have certain characteristics such as being able to: grow, develop, have a purpose, reproduce, adapt, and have cells. A living thing could reproduce which means they would make offspring. Viruses don't have the ability to grow and develop on their own. Viruses don’t have the ability to reproduce on their own without the help of a keeper

Some evolutionary biologists believe that since viruses are not alive, they are unimportant when considering evolution; this view places viruses in a category of merely secondary influencers of evolution. However, genetic information is directly exchanged with living organisms within the web of life. Also, virus genomes can permanently colonize their hosts, leading researchers to conclude that the cell nucleus itself originates from viruses. Prokaryotic cells did not merely gradually adapt until they formed a nucleus and became eukaryotic cells. Instead, the nucleus could have come from a persistent, large DNA virus that, within prokaryotes, made a permanent home. In conclusion, although viruses may not be technically defined as alive, they provide a link and form the boundary between biochemistry and biology, and are an integral component within the study of life.

Some specific examples of how microbes are involved in food and beverages are in bread, cheese, and beer.

Since viruses were first discovered in 1892, there has been an ongoing debate of whether or not a virus can be classified as living organisms. A virus is composed of two simple components: a genome and a protein coat to protect this genome, and they are known to infect living host cells to replicate. From this definition, it does not define either the possibility of whether or not that a virus is alive. It gives the structure and function of the virus, but not the general rules that are needed to be met when an organism is considered alive. Some scientists believe that the discovery of the mimivirus prompts that all viruses are alive. Others claim that the mimivirus is an anomaly and does not relate to the general aspects of viruses. Viruses

The first reasoning that the author said was that viruses are alive through their shapes and sizes. Shapes and sizes are one of the main factors in identifying if a substance is dead or alive. Growth is one of the characteristics of living things. The author said many viruses are tiny

Viruses are not entirely alive for the reason they can’t reproduce on their own. A virus is independent of a host and it’s considered a obligated parasite, whose structure is consist of nucleic acid that’s surrounded by a coat of protein called a capsid. Viruses have evolved over time, about 10 million years ago, and they still have been evolution over time from prokaryote cells or eukaryotic

Viruses are in fact not alive. As the author in Are Viruses Alive states " They {viruses} have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life". Though they do have the 6 out of 7 characteristics I feel that they still do not qualify as a living organism because they carry on no independent metabolic or respiratory functions and cannot "live" until inserted into a host cell to begin their biological activities. Also they consist of a protein coat which contains either DNA or RNA. They are not made of cells. They have no cellular structures. They do not obtain homeostasis or evolve. Finally the genetic material of a viruses has to combine with a living cell to reproduce its like having