Understanding Viruses part 1/17

[Dafidd]

"the littlest assassin..."

oups? :p

[shadowdudecool30]

what's up with youtube nowadays? cause look at this now!

[ad1492]

Great movie.

Discovery production ? Wow...

It must be old video, because today Discovery productions are piece of sh.t.

[WakeUpSeattle]

Rockefeller University eh? Louis Pasteur's "germ theory" which has only created the current medical disaster paradigm we are in today.. Hmm.. The failure who profited off of manipulating data also sounds a lot like the Rockefeller owned Big Pharma drug cartel of today.

[CaptainXero]

Already two errors in this video:

1. Viruses are NOT classified as living organisms.

2. Kuru is NOT caused by a virus, but rather by a prion.

[MasterOhSo]

Thanks for the upload...excellent vid with wonderful content...peace be with

[5cybershot]

ini bahan ulangan Biologi gw ne...

[crucialconflict02]

lol 1 day after i watched this i got sick with a cold :-p

[fatmon]

Look whether or not viruses are living or not is a matter of opinion among scientists.

[somor98]

Damn them terrorist germs!!!!!

[exleader75]

Man, you are LUCKY, KajiMotomiya !

[KajiMotomiya]

I honestly didn't think this'd be on YouTube. My Bio teacher showed us this movie, but I slept through half of it. And I have to do a report on it.

Thank you, Obelisk! You really saved my hide!

[GregoryHouseFanGirl]

But virus are not consitered "living" because they are not made up of cells, they cannot reproduce without a host ans they cannot move like bacteria do, so most scientist(and some people) belive that virus' are not living.

[teddyterrorist]

yes they are ... theyre acellular living organisms

[xiangyik]

Assertion. They are considered self-replication molecular aggregates, because they are simply infectious packets of DNA with no capability to carry out any metabolic function, which is a necessity for a thing to be considered living.

[teddyterrorist]

dude you are so wrong. I took virology courses at the university level. Viruses are acellular living organisms ok?

[xiangyik]

WHEN did you take these courses? I have 3 virology textbooks at home, and only the oldest one says that viruses are living. The other two say that they are not. At lot has changed in the last two years alone. Be logical and find the biological criteria used to asses life, and place viruses on that scale.

[teddyterrorist]

I understand, I'm just telling you what I've been taught at the university of alberta. I took the course in the fall of 07

[magick205]

I think one of the more recent definitions places virii into a category of parasitic chemical/genomic infection. They are unable to grow unless they are inside their host organism. Ergo, not life. Kind of a "grey area" definition, but one that seems much more accurate. A gene creature.

[7Row7enn7]

If they don't m,ove how do they inject their genetic material into the host cell?

[xiangyik]

They move, but that does not prove that they are living. Chemotaxis and transmission by medium movement do not mean a virus is alive.

[magick205]

Short answer: allosteric proteins.

[thobaben]

Sounds like Murphy Brown doing the voiceover.