Honestly? Yes. Not in a traditional sense, but in a basic sense.
Living things seek to survive long enough to reproduce, which is exactly what viruses do- with rather terrifying success.
They don't react like say, fungi or bacterium do- which form protective cysts around themselves to avoid the immune system of hosts, or to weather out inhospitable environments,- but they DO mutate in order to survive, to continue on replicating.
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Honestly? Yes. Not in a traditional sense, but in a basic sense.
Living things seek to survive long enough to reproduce, which is exactly what viruses do- with rather terrifying success.
They don't react like say, fungi or bacterium do- which form protective cysts around themselves to avoid the immune system of hosts, or to weather out inhospitable environments,- but they DO mutate in order to survive, to continue on replicating.