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What causes a disease but are not considered to be living organisms?
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Viruses are not considered living organisms but can cause disease. Prions that cause Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow disease, aka vCJD- variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease when in humans) are not living organisms as they are just misfolded protein particles.
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Is human brain a living organism?
It would not be considered a living organism because it does not carry out several of the qualifications needed to be considered alive, including feeding and reproducing. It is, however, part of humans who are obviously considered living organisms and also consisting of cells, which are living organisms.
Are tumors alive?
Tumors consist of living cells but they are not considered their own organisms.
What is model organism?
Scientists select model organisms to understand that particular life form, and its interactions with other life forms and with the environment. They choose particular organisms as models, because of the hopefully wider applicability of the scientific findings. Scientists think that what they learn from the particular model organism will help them understand other organisms. The basic idea comes from Charles Darwin's On the origin of Species, and The descent of man. According to that idea, all living organisms track back to the same ancestor, or the same ancestral gene pool. In particular, model organisms are selected, to understand human disease. Often, it is considered unethical to use people to sort out possible causes of and treatments for disease. So, for example, causes of and treatments for cancer have been studied through the use of mice in laboratories.
What all living organisms acquire from their envionment?
All living organisms acquire nutrients
The study of living?
Biology
Is a nonliving particles that causes disease?
Viruses are considered to be non-living things, and are capable of causing disease. The reason viruses are not considered living is because they lack many of the characteristics of life until they infect a host cell.
What is a nonliving particle that causes a disease?
Viruses are considered to be non-living things, and are capable of causing disease. The reason viruses are not considered living is because they lack many of the characteristics of life until they infect a host cell.
What are Living organisms that cause disease?
Bacteria, amoeba, molds. learn more on ---- www.bactirea.com
Why aren't cars considered organisms?
Because cars are not living things. organisms are living things.
Disease caused by uncontrolled mitosis in living organisms?
cancer
Bacteria is a living or non-living organisms?
Certainly a living organism
What types of living organisms should you not come into contact with in your biology laboratory?
Organisms that cause disease
Having a ozone hole causes damage to?
Causing a ozone hole causes damage to all organisms. These organisms are the living creatures.
Is human brain a living organism?
It would not be considered a living organism because it does not carry out several of the qualifications needed to be considered alive, including feeding and reproducing. It is, however, part of humans who are obviously considered living organisms and also consisting of cells, which are living organisms.
The virus that causes chicken pox contains DNA. It reproduces inside the cells of living organisms. The virus is not made of cells and does not eat or breathe. Why isn’t the virus considered to be a living thing?
it is not made of cells (A+)
What is an illness caused by living pathogenic organisms such as bacteria and viruses?
Infectious disease
Is biogenetic a disease?
No, it's a term that means the synthesis of substances by living organisms.
