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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Are Viruses Alive?
« on: 27/08/2010 03:27:06 »some vaccines are made with irradiated viruses, their definition is that the virus is killedI had always been taught they were 'inactivated' as opposed to 'killed' but I see you point.
As for the bacteria in the wrong media environment I would argue that it is irrelevant because in the right media the bacterium is capable of independent growth, something viruses are never be capable of.