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A disease can be biotic or abiotic. If it is a bacteria it is biotic, but if it is a virus it is always abiotic, because viruses are not considered living because they cannot reproduce on there own, do not consume energy or give off waist.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 15y agoRight now scientists say that viruses contain a few characteristics of living life, but also don't fufil all characteristics of living life. Right now viruses are considered abiotic.
Viruses show living characteristics in some cases while in other cases they do not. For example, viruses can multiply only inside another living cell and not when free in nature. Because of its parasitic like existence, viruses are considered as living but the characteristics of viruses outside a living cell put it as non-living. As of now, viruses are considered as a link between the biotic and abiotic world.
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∙ 14y agoCold viruses are abiotic as they lack proper cell structure. Another way of looking at it is that antibiotics can't treat cold viruses as antibiotics kill microorganisms such as bacteria.
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∙ 8y agoA virus is non-living, so it could be considered to be abiotic.
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abiotic
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