It has because you can see resemblences and time lapses and the scientists have worked on showing the way of how things came to be instead of stories and such.

Viruses can be classified as alive because they can reproduce with the help of a host cell and hold their own genetic code called DNA and are capable of passing it on.

Viruses are alive because they have a genetic code... they contain DNA and with the help of a host cell can pass down their code. It cannot obtain its own energy but it can use the host's energy to create more viruses, at this point the cell would be overloaded with viruses and eventually burst. Viruses have the ability to evolve over time into something stronger or weaker over a long period of time. If it can use energy and be a moving organism capable of producing young (with some help!), then it has to be a living creature.

True, although that would be like saying that the rest of our bodies are not alive. If you excluded the brain, in theory, would the rest of our body be alive? If so, why do you think this? Surely the rest of the virus would be alive the the other parts of body if studied?

Wouldn't that be like saying an animate object connected to this would not be alive? It is still capable of keeping life, and with the other cell. Even though it does not reproduce directly, it can still be classified into an animate object capable of holding a life structure important to life.

Viruses do not become part of the cell, they use them to pass down DNA. If an organism has a genetic code that can be followed up by the same organism, it can be classified as alive.

I think that the US is using too many goods production places in China for the US to keepitself together on its own. I get that countries need to import and export, but many of our daily life objects have had relation to China. The United States needs to cut off some import sites, or we will crumble when the time comes.

I didn't copy and paste, I only did the first part. Try to look it up. I just use my combined research. Just try to search it!

Viruses straddle the very definition of life. They lie between supra molecular complexes and very simple biological structures. In other words, they are a simple form of life that do use other cells to reproduce, but can well be proven that a virus cell needs the structures of life to survive like any other cell. Infection of a cell results in death, in which the virus has succeeded in producing more of its kind to survive. The actual definition of living is the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.