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How do viruses use energy?
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2010-05-30 16:49:34
If you're talking about biological viruses, they dont actually
need energy as they are mostly proteins and are inactive most of
the time and become active only when they reach a host like a
bacterium or any other cell. Its pure thermodynamics on how the
virus attaches itself and injects DNA/RNA into the host. So there
is no need for energy
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