They aren’t as different as you might expect. They both use nucleic acids and polymerase activity. That is probably what gp means by life having one form here and it is right, all life uses genetic material like this.
Virus is only considered not “alive” because it uses a host for its life cycle but that is more or less an opportunistic adaption like we see all over life in different situations, even humans in terms of some of the amino acids that must be sourced from the environment: why make everything you need yourself when you can instead steal that thing from your neighbor?
They aren’t as different as you might expect. They both use nucleic acids and polymerase activity. That is probably what gp means by life having one form here and it is right, all life uses genetic material like this.
Virus is only considered not “alive” because it uses a host for its life cycle but that is more or less an opportunistic adaption like we see all over life in different situations, even humans in terms of some of the amino acids that must be sourced from the environment: why make everything you need yourself when you can instead steal that thing from your neighbor?