SciShow: Are Viruses Alive?

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Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Viruses all around us, they evolve, grow, and can be killed. But are they alive? Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1080/073911011010524992 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.016 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9879-7 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2010.07.003 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33519747/ https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix349 https://doi.org/10.1515/bmc-2020-0001 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19270719/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.008f https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.014 https://doi.org/10.1038/340467a0 https://doi.org/10.2307/1313569 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30300353/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26475454/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12663918/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16741503/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.010 https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0023269 https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01107-07 Image Source https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/big-oak-in-the-sunlight-gm1186742971-334950326 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paenibacillus_alvei_endospore_microscope_image.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolbachia.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_microscopic_image_of_a_mimivirus_-_journal.ppat.1000087.g007_crop.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitochondria,_mammalian_lung_-_TEM.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=bacteriophage&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-virus-cells-attacking-a-dna-strand-gm1154473170-313965927 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/virus-cells-under-the-microscope-gm1218190140-355876337 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/virus-dna-covid-19-coronavirus-dna-water-white-background-3d-rendering-gm1216077362-354457735 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/diatoms-are-photosynthesising-algae-they-have-a-siliceous-skeleton-and-are-found-in-gm1182559067-332114302 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/2020-coronavirus-pandemic-banner-gm1213840577-352931797


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