Dragaera

Culture (was Architecture question for Steve based upon theSun, the Moon &

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Tue Oct 26 21:06:30 PDT 2004

Tsarren <tsarren at alyra.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:20:05PM -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
>> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> > 
>> > I'd have thought the *top* of the food chain would be the carrion
>> > eaters.  Or at least the obligate carnivores.
>> 
>> How about the virus?
>
>
> Viruses are not classified as living organisms - they do not grow, they do
> not consume food, they are not made of one or more cells, they don't even
> have cell parts, and they don't respond to their environment.  This would
> indicate they cannot be a part of the food chain, and are outside of it in
> the same way that a forest fire is outside of it.

However, the fungus do look good for this too.
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