Although bacteria and viruses are both too small to be seen without a microscope, they're as different as giraffes and goldfish. Bacteria are relatively complex, single-celled creatures with a rigid wall and a thin, rubbery membrane surrounding the fluid inside the cell. They can reproduce on their own.
A bacterium is a single-celled, often parasitic microorganism without a distinct nucleus or an organized cell structure. It has cytoplasm and a cell wall, but no true nucleus. Various species are responsible for decay, fermentation, nitrogen fixation, and many plant and animal diseases.
Bacteria are classed in a kingdom of their own, prokaryota (although, this kingdom may now be regarded as two separate kingdoms, archaea and bacteria).
A virus is a submicroscopic parasitic particle consisting of a strand of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat (capsid). It does not have cytoplasm or a nucleus and can only replicate within a host cell (has parasitic nature).
Viruses are not considered to be independent living organisms as the only characteristic of life they show is reproduction.
Bacteria are living organisms with a complete cellular structure. Meaning they have a cell nucleus among other things.
Viruses are not technically living "creatures" but rather are more of a "bundle" of proteins that use other living organisms (like humans or cattle for example) to replicate their protein structure.
viruses are non living and bacteria are living organisms
It is not. HIV is a virus. It has a completely different make-up from a bacteria. The most important difference between a bacteria and a virus is that a virus does not have the ability to replicate on its own. It needs a host, another cell, to reproduce, unlike bacteria which can reproduce on their own.
A virus that infects bacteria is called a bacteriophage
Bacteria and virus
Bacteriophage is the virus that infects bacteria
Viruses are (debatably) not alive while bacteria are; meaning they are smaller and require a living host to survive. Bacteria are killed with antibiotics, but viruses are not.
virus is an arkaryotic organism while bacteria is prokaryotic
A pathogenic bacterium is alive while a virus is not.
It is not. HIV is a virus. It has a completely different make-up from a bacteria. The most important difference between a bacteria and a virus is that a virus does not have the ability to replicate on its own. It needs a host, another cell, to reproduce, unlike bacteria which can reproduce on their own.
Bacteria are not dependent on a host. :)
Bacteria has both DNA and RNA where as Virus has either DNA or RNA
A bacteria is a unicellular microorganism while a virus is a submicroscopic particle.
As simple as that a viral infection is caused by a virus and a bacterial infection is caused by a bacteria.
A virus that infects bacteria is called a bacteriophage
Bacteria and virus
Bacteriophage is the virus that infects bacteria
virus
Viruses are (debatably) not alive while bacteria are; meaning they are smaller and require a living host to survive. Bacteria are killed with antibiotics, but viruses are not.