What are Acellular Organisms? Viruses, Viroids, Virusoids, Prions and Satellite viruses

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Organic environments themselves are a good example of acellular organism if you think about it

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Really interesting... Would you please elaborate a bit more? Thank you so much

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@@biologyexams4u if you use process philosophical approach like that of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, you can generalize the notion of organism to include self organizing systems and occurrences of many kinds, beyond cellular life. It's a shift of perspective that collapses an arbitrary distinction between what's "just physics" eg. predictable with fundamental equations (to an extent) and where chemistry begins, where even at the level of molecules, the molecule is an complex oscillatory structure that's self-organized, just like the atom itself. Physics is then the study of behavior of elementary organisms like particles and chemistry studies complex structures and the behavior that emerges at this scale. Biology is another step above it but not a transition in kind (as in non-life to life) but in proportion, because capability of matter for aliveness is it's intrinsic feature. Whiteheads ontology is not substance based, but process based, and matter itself is recognized as a process and this shift of frame opens an entire new perspective

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@@biologyexams4u KZbin channel Footnotes2plato makes videos about these exact topics and even has a recent interview with developmental biologist Michael levin who's doing some really cool regenerative biology and studying diverse intelligences in cells and tissues and developmental pathways