Virus lack metabolic pathways or any other life activity. This is the reason virus is known as particles and not as life form. they require their host for the replication and dependent of host machinery.
can you explain skin cell's metabolism
A virus does not have a metabolism. To reproduce, a virus takes control of a living cell, forcing the cell to make copies of the virus. All energy is provided by the cell.
A virus is an inert chemical, with no metabolic activity, when it is not inside a cell. It cannot function on its own. Whereas with a living cell you always have a metabolism, even if the cell is part of a parasitic organism.
A virus replicates inside a host cell. For example 'Bacteriophase'
Nothing reproduces inside a virus. It has to latch on the a host cell and insert its' DNA or RNA and then make the host cell reproduce virus particles.
The virus attaches to the host cell, it takes over the functions of the host cell, and it eventually destroys it. If there was no host cell, the virus would die.
No, a virus has no metabolism whatsoever. It relies entirely on tricking the host cell to do its work; while outside a cell, the virus doesn't move, eat, or anything.
it attaches to the host cell
Virus particles have no metabolism and does not use energy. However, some viruses have kinetic energy stored in the high pressure inside them, this energy is released when they squirt their genome into the host cell. When they hijack the cell to make more viruses the cell will use energy to produce new viruses.
outside a living host cell , a virus is found to be inactive , devoid of its metabolic activities . but inside a living cell it actively carries out all its metabolism . so sometimes it is living and some other times non living
There is no other living thing that requires a virus in order to reproduce.
A cell invaded by a virus is known as the 'host cell', as it 'hosted' the virus with shelter and food.