2006-06-19 12:25:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
the cell
2006-06-21 18:17:37 · answer #1 · answered by casparin0324 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's weird when people say I'd prefer him to have a second wife than cheat on me, as if they are the only two options. Is that how pathetic men have become? You either settle for them getting another wife or they cheat on you. In this day and age it is a matter of desperation to become a second/third of fourth wife, not a matter of honour so no I wouldn't. And I would hope I leave my husband if he was to do that, but you have to make sure to the best of your ability that before you marry you are pretty sure he wouldn't. I have just ended (maybe temporarily if he changes) something with a prospective husband because he wants to keep the option of polygamy open for himself. Short term pain long term pleasure. There are ways to avoid it though, obviously be a good wife, but also marrying from your community where you are both known, a man will lose credibility if he breaks up his family for another woman. Be independent financially so you can threaten to leave if he does, put in your contract that he is not allowed, cause breaking a promise is a sin in Islam. @Zoya- I get what you're saying but I'm not a romantic either. All the men I've ever known, be it my family (its pretty big), or family friends and all the men in the community have all been monogamous, no cheating either. I have never come across a man who is polygamous or has cheated. People go on about science and man's nature but it's not present around a lot of people. Of course there are a lot of men who cheat but they tend not to be religious, they have no self control in anything. As for man's nature to be polygamous, then why was the first man Adam (as) given only one wife, arguably in a time when polygamy was needed the most, for procreation purposes.
2016-05-20 03:21:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
virus are not living entites Although a recently discovered endoparasite of protozoa is bigger than all virus and almost all bacteria. It's called a mimivirus..
Prions are misfolded proteins that can in turn misfold similar proteins. (of the same amino acid constituents and order of attachment).
They are not life forms.
mycoplasms are minute bacteria that are endoparasites.
L-forms of certain bacteria are a very small form of such bacteria. Some l-forms can revert to their regular, usual bacterial, larger size.
Chlamydia are very small endoparasites, but they are not the smallest bacteria, and Rickettsia are small but larger than some small bacteria.
Ultra-microbacteria recently discovered 3 kilometers deep in Greenland glacier ice cores some to be the smallest discovered to date. They are smaller than 0.3 micron while most bacteria are 10 micron. Thousands of species were found but only 100 were cultured. These multiplied in culture.
And perhaps a very controversial organism called nano-bacteria that supposed to be only 100 nanometers in diameter. They were first discovered, (about 2004) in the center of kidney calcifications and later in clacium deposits in coronary arteries and heart valves.
They seem to multiply but scientists are still trying to isolate nucleic acids from them (i.e. D.N.A., or R.N.A.).
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2006-06-19 14:03:16 · answer #3 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prions don't count. The smallest cell would be the smallest bacterial cell - whatever that is. Bacterial cells are usually a lot smaller than cells of plants and animals.
2006-06-19 12:55:51 · answer #4 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If life is merely replication, then proteins (prions causing mad cow disease and CJD and Kuru). If life is replication with independence from other living organisms, it's the cell. If life is intelligence, and you are pantheistic, then all matter is alive, so quarks. Whatever the case, the answer is NOT viruses
2006-06-19 12:31:44 · answer #5 · answered by david b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cell
2006-06-19 12:29:45 · answer #6 · answered by normy in garden city 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cell.
Having the capacity of life would include having reproductive mechanisms, but viruses do not have, so they are not considered livign things.
2006-06-20 16:55:03 · answer #7 · answered by nobodyknowsme™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cell, if I recall correctly.
2006-06-19 12:29:57 · answer #8 · answered by scutato 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that will be your cell.
Simple human cells.
It consists of the semi permeable membrane, nucleus and numerous nucleatic organelles.
2006-06-20 02:03:21 · answer #9 · answered by Dah J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋