Characteristics of life but not living?

Question

Is there anything that has most or all of the the 7 characteristics of life but is not living. One example is a viruses but is that something else.

Answer 1

how about Alu elements and psedogenes

Answer 2

The only thing I know of other than a virus, is a prion. It is just a self replicating protein that cause disease, most notable, mad cow. It is the only self replicating biological molecule that doesn't have DNA. It simply modifies other proteins to reproduce.  

Answer 3

Nothing that is not alive has all of the characteristics of life.  

Viruses do not have all of the characteristics of life as viruses cannot reproduce by themselves.  In addition, there are biologists that contend a virus is not made out of cells.

Fire has most of the characteristics of life.  The only thing it lacks is that,  like a virus, it is not made out of cells.