• Question: Are there living beings without cells?

    Asked by Pablito to Carmen, Laura, Noel, Steph on 18 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Laura Garcia Ibanez

      Laura Garcia Ibanez answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      Some people consider virus as a living being, others do not. It depends if in the definition of living being you include being able to reproduce by themselves. Virus are not able to reproduce without a host.
      If you don’t include virus as a living being, then there are no living beings without cells. Cheers Pablito!

    • Photo: Carmen Denman

      Carmen Denman answered on 20 Mar 2015:

      I agree with Laura viruses are a bit of tricky one, but no we do need cells to function, but unicellular organisms so they don’t have CELLS just one cell are about as basic as you can get before viruses!
      Carmen

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