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 by trus on Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:01 am
Greetings,
I have a bio quiz question that I cant seem to find the answer to and was wondering if any of you gifted individuals could help me out.
The question is:
What has all of the characteristics of life (ie, grows, reproduces, is made of cells) except does not have the last characteristic, which is “has DNA or RNA”?
~Paul
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by biostudent84 on Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:32 am
Viruses =D
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by ERS on Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:52 am
do viruses really 'grow' though....
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by biostudent84 on Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:21 pm
That's true...knee-jerk reaction. Viruses have been up for debate for a long time.
Hmm....what else?
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by trus on Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:25 pm
Virus was my first guess too, but they contain RNA. So it must be something else. (This is a tough one!)
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by 2810712 on Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:34 am
trus wrote:Greetings,
I have a bio quiz question that I cant seem to find the answer to and was wondering if any of you gifted individuals could help me out.
The question is:
What has all of the characteristics of life (ie, grows, reproduces, is made of cells) except does not have the last characteristic, which is “has DNA or RNA”?
~Paul
I think, we should first decide that in what sense should we take the words cell, grow, reproduce. It can be any thing - nonliving also.But , if it,s a question in bioquiz then can it be a non living thing?
hsg
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by mith on Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:48 am
red blood cells?
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by Poison on Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:46 am
I'm not sure but can it be PRION? I do not have so much knowledge about it but i know that it has neither DNA nor RNA. It is made of only protein.
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by bioguy on Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:32 am
a funguss?
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by ERS on Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:00 pm
prions do not grow, but they do carry a small bit of genetic material.
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by mith on Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:26 am
Anyone seen the virus in the movie Andromeda Strain?
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by thank.darwin on Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:42 pm
mithrilhack wrote:Anyone seen the virus in the movie Andromeda Strain?
No I haven't - is it a good movie?
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