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Origin of Viruses 135

A vi rus lives as a par a site in the cells of a for eign or gan ism. Viruses have no me tab -
o lisms of their own out side the host cell. The di a gram above shows how a vi rus
takes over a cell. It first at tach es it self to the cell, then in jects it with its own DNA.
The cell is thus forced in to cop y ing the vi rus. Eventually, the cell ex plodes and the
new vi rus par ti cles are re leased.

mu ta tion. Viruses can not per form rus es and their de vel op ment to date.
these func tions in de pend ent ly out - At the same time, the ex is tence of three
side the cell, in their form as vir i ons. very dif fer ent phys i cal sta ges, and the
They need com plete or gan isms in in a bil i ty of any one of these to pro vide
a ful ly sat is fac to ry ac count re gard ing
or der to "come to life." 148
vi rus es, makes any com ment even
As you can see, vi rus es can not be
more dif fi cult. The com ments sum ma -
re gard ed as a pre-life stage, be cause
rized be low are based more on fic tion
they can per form such key sta ges as
than on sci en tif ic foun da tions.
rep li ca tion and mu ta tion on ly in the
cells of the or gan isms they in hab it. Once up on a time, the or i gins of vi rus -
es were cel lu lar or gan isms. These vi tal
Viruses are un a ble to sur vive in the
cells en tered oth er cells as par a sites
ab sence of a com plete or gan ism. For
and grad u al ly lost all their or gan elles.
that rea son, there can be no ques tion
of their con sti tut ing a pre lim i nary The or i gins of vi rus es were a free-liv -
stage for bac te ria, for ex am ple. ing pre-cell. Later, with the emer gence
Professor Ali Demirsoy, a of cel lu lar or gan isms, these prim i tive
forms be gan liv ing in side them as par -
Turkish ex pert on ev o lu tion, re fers
a sites.
to the in va lid i ty of the claims re -
gard ing the or i gins of vi rus es: Viruses are de scend ed nei ther from
pre-cells nor form cel lu lar or gan isms.
Our ac cu mu lat ed knowl edge is far
They emerged from frag ments re leased
from tell ing us about the or i gin of vi -

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