Saturday, November 24, 2007

Virus vs Homosapiens, a small comparison

I was just going throught the definition of Virus in Wiki and I was just surprised to see the amount of similarity that existed between the organisms which are still debated to be a living creature or not i.e., the virus (because the virus do not have any cells, they just consist of a genetic material either a DNA or an RNA and a protective protein and they tend to evolve through Natural selection. As a result many people do not accept virus to be living organisms) and the most sophisticated living organism in the world - human being or Homosapiens.
Both Virus and the Human beings are completely parasitic in nature, they depend on other plants and animals for their survival. Both of them utilize the host's resource in an unrestrained manner causing an irreparable damage to the system, in case of the virus it is a single plant or animal, in case of human beings it is the entire environment of the particular location. Further it is also interesting to compare the life cycle of a virus against the human. The first stage is called the ATTACHMENT where the virus attaches itself to a favorable host, the human also first try to attach himself with a place which could offer him all the food and the other resources he needs, the second stage of the life cycle is PENETRATION, where the virus penetrates into the host cells in order to start utilize its resources, a human being also penetrates into a natural resource like a forest in order to utilize its resources, the next stage is UNCOATING where the virus releases its genomic materials which will kill the host cells, a human uncoats his real nature, starts to pollute the environment through all possible manners and thus slowly killing the natural resource. The final stage of life cycle is REPLICATION where the virus replicates itself rapidly and each replication in turn attaches to a host cell and continuing the life cycle, i dont think i need to mention about the rate of replication of Homosapiens which has made him the second largest species in the world only behind a microbe whose named i had forgotten :)
But the only difference between the virus and the human is that, the plants and animals can be prevented from the viral attack through anti-viral drugs and vaccines, but no method could be developed so far by nature to protect its resources from the exploitation of a human being :(

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