Le_Forgeron wrote:
> But virii are not unicelluar organism. They are very far from even being
> one.

That's why I said "for sufficiently loose definitions of unicelluar". 
They're certainly a "cell" in the original sense of the word "little room". 
They have walls, and a content.

> Virii are more like toxin: a chain of molecules, with the added bonus
> that when encountering the right cells, they get replicated by the cells

Well, there's a small collection of chemicals with a distinct boundary that 
self-replicate in the right environment. I think that's close enough to 
"alive" for purposes of advertising.

> Breaking a cell is easy, as the OP says.

Yep.

> Breaking a molecule requires to have an actual chemical reaction, which
> usually means exhausting the reacting components. Moreover, you cannot
> break a molecule and hope that the results will not be a toxic 

They're unlikely to self-replicate after you break them, tho.

> would break a virus would also usually break far more easily the
> components of your cells.

We *are* talking about Dettol, right?

"Like other household cleaners, Dettol is poisonous and should not be ingested."

So, yeah, but that's a *good* thing.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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