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Viruses can reproduce very quickly. When reproducing they enter a living cell and they inject their genetic material.

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Why do you classify viruses as obligatory intracellular parasite?

Viruses need living cells to produce more viruses. They are obliged to use living cells.


Viruses depend on living things for what?

Viruses depend on living cells because they reproduce inside of them.


Are viruses living cells?

No, they are not alive at all.


Is some viruses are prokaryotes and some are eukaryotes?

Viruses are neither prokaryotes nor eukaryotes as they are not living cells and do not have cell structure. They are parasites of living cells.


Where would viruses most likely grow?

Viruses can only live in living organisms (viruses themselves are not actually living). They might infect cells in our body, such as throat cells (infection of throat cells causes sore throat).


Did viruses appear before or after living cells?

no because we needed to know about living cells to know about a virus.


What types of things have cells?

Anything living. Since viruses are not living (they don't have cells) they don't count.


What are pathogens that need living cells in order to reproduce called?

Viruses need living cells for reproduction .


Why viruses are difficult to classify as living organisms?

It is because viruses are not made up of cells


Do viruses cause harm?

yes they are harmful for all living organism. but not at all.


How are viruses like organisms?

Well, if you consider a cell a living organism, then yes. A virus is a living organism because, like cells, they usually regulate in your body. On a certain basis, viruses can be extremely harmful, causing sickness among its host. Otherwise, viruses are injected inside a host(viruses are already dead) to help prevent illness and create an immunity.


Why scientist believe that virus are not living organisms?

viruses do not grow, and viruses do not respond to changes in their environment. Therefore, viruses are not living organisms. All living things reproduce, but Viruses need living cells to reproduce because Viruses cannot reproduce by themselves.