It appears that the idea we use to have decades ago, that that nothing less that a cell might be considered life or as "alive", was put in trail at the discovery or viruses.
Does it respond to our terms of what we considered alive or not? Does it reproduce it self? Does it not?
I think is time to look much more further than that and start considering EVEN organic macromolecules as something alive!
Anyone with basis biological collage formation knows the existency or prions.
What, even... what else? Can a carbohydrate have it's own biological entity in an scale of what it is considered as life form?
Surely it doesn't have molecular information coded as nucleid acids, but it surely has it's own estructure, and configuration and conformation (mainly coded by it's primarly estructure) but also coded by it's interaction with other structures.
We also know that even in a signaling pathway they can also work as molecular signaling ligands, and this pathways lead to celular responses, even expressing DNA, RNA (or maybe even others) responses.
Does it counts as the equivalent as what viruses do, using it's host cellular machinery to achive it's reproduction?
Well... I hope that someone read this and think my ideas are worthy of expression, and even consider myself as someone whom could be usefull for science investigation and contribute to science and human evolution. I'll be gladly if you let me know even in the comments and we could put in touch for any science project you might be leadding to, or might be considering it will be interesing doing so.
This were my nightime reflextions.
I hope you enjoyed!
Keep it up to!!
AП3
