• Question: What is the point of a virus?

    Asked by anon-282569 on 24 Feb 2021.
    • Photo: Amal Lavender

      Amal Lavender answered on 24 Feb 2021:

      great question – Viruses are not living things. Its business is to make more of itself—that’s its only job. Causing disease along the way may or may not be good for it actually—if it kills the cells too fast, that gives it less time to get out and go find a new host

    • Photo: Katie West

      Katie West answered on 24 Feb 2021:

      You could ask this question of most things – what is the point of fish or humans? Like Amal has said a viruses main goal is just to make more of itself so it doesn’t “die out”

    • Photo: Isabel Lewis

      Isabel Lewis answered on 25 Feb 2021:

      Love the question similar to what Amal and Katie have said, all things want to survive and as they exist there aim is to survive and replicate to produce the next generation.

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