Dragaera

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

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Wed Oct 27 04:56:43 PDT 2004

Tsarren wrote:
> 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.
>
> Kat

Depends upon who's doing the classification.   But let's move to a less
controversial form, the bacteria.