Me and my friend will start a research about proving that viruses are living organism and i need some help?

1- Will we need any tool , what are the names and all the details about it.





2- Where to start the research ?





3- Any other peice of advice

Me and my friend will start a research about proving that viruses are living organism and i need some help?
i can't see how you can manage conclude something that brilliant scientists have disagreed upon.
Reply:get a textbook and look up the seven signs of life





compare the known properties of a virus to those seven signs





you will find that viruses are not alive!
Reply:OK, existing dogma says that viruses lack the necessary biological organelles and biochemistry to be classified as living systems. You first need a hypothesis (a testable idea) that supports your argument that viruses are indeed misclassified. Start with the premise that all life originates from other life. What is the origin and evolution of viruses, the different kinds of viruses?





We know that viruses can carry the primary molecular components of all living systems, RNA and DNA, and an array of genes, enzymes, and proteins necessary to make use of their genetic information. How did these genes necessary to support viruse structure and activity come about? What was their origin and evolution. Consider researching "Jumping Genes" and "Bacterial Phage".





It may be that viruses played a "lateral" role in the evolution of species and of life diversity. Life comes from life. Viruses are very much smaller than normal somatic cells, but there are a type of bacteria cell that approach the size of viruses---microplasma--- .... See: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma





I have seen articles on diploid somatic cells not much larger than mycoplasma.





So, your approach (hypothesis) is that if life comes from life, then viruses came from life. If that is true, viruses are alive. If it isn't true, then life doesn't always come from life. It may be that we need to redefine just what life is in a far broader sense.





This might get you started in the right direction. Good luck with your idea to overturn scientific dogma and throw new light upon the nature of life.
Reply:sorry- viruses don't meet the definition of life; they have no metabolism and can't replicate/reproduce unless they are in a host cell. They are basically a chemical parasite.
Reply:u cant prove its a living organism, it lacks so many of the main features that living organisms have