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  Biology Giant Viruses and the Tree of Life [long_description] When the first giant virus, the mimivirus, was discovered in 1992, it was misidentified as a bacterium because it was too large to have been a virus by the current understanding. Ever since, biologists have been debating how viruses should be categorized and described. Are they living? Are they something else? What is their place on the tree of life?

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