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By BRIDGE8 under license from Mangorolla CIC 2024
Hi greywolf11,
Molecules are groups of atoms joined together. Life (animals, plants, bacteria etc…) is made up of many molecules, but I don’t think you can say that there is life in molecules.
Does that answer your question?
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Blaire has answered this right. We can’t say that there is life in molucules, but we can say that there are molucules in life….
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That is one of the questions that scientists argue about sometimes. What defines life?
If it is reproduction and spreading our genes around then viruses are very good at reproducing! …yet we do not say they are alive?
If the definition of life is being self-sustaining then there are a lot of organisms that we say are alive but are not because there are organisms that fully depend on other host organisms to live such as various bacteria and fungi.
At what point do we define something as being alive? There is a lot we don’t yet know or fully understand about the molecular world and so for now what we define as a ‘living thing’ is what is convenient for us. Which is that we say a molecule and viruses are not living things. But Archea and Bacteria and Eukaryotes are living things. You never know if that may change in the future as more research is done!
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Remember set theory in math?
All life contains molecules, but no molecules contain life and not all molecules have to be part of a living thing.
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