life, n.Trivia

A virus is partially living --- viruses can sometimes insert DNA into a bacterium through it appendage

The ocean is home to an estimated 50-80% of all life on earth.

Oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet, and humans have explored less than 10% of it.

A virus is not exactly dead. It has genes, reproduces, and evolves through natural selection

Viruses are not exactly alive: they do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals.

Viruses not exactly dead: they have genes, they reproduce, and they evolve

Carbon is in every living thing on the Earth

A virus is not exactly alive. It is an inert packet of chemicals without a host -- it has no cells, no ability to turn food into energy,