Re: Chemical bonding inside living vs non-living things

From: Borek (borek_at_bpp.your.pants.com.pl)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:16:25 +0100

Scott Coutts wrote:

> People will define life in different ways, but usually there needs to be
> metabolism for life.

Unless we agree that viruses are alive too :)

But - as you have already pointed - it all depends an how we define
'alive'.

Best,
Borek 

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