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The gray area between living and nonliving things includes entities such as viruses and prions. While viruses can replicate and evolve, they lack cellular structure and cannot carry out metabolic processes independently, placing them outside the traditional definition of living organisms. Prions, on the other hand, are misfolded proteins that can induce misfolding in other proteins, leading to disease, but they also do not exhibit characteristics of life. These entities challenge our understanding of what constitutes life.

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