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How does viruses release energy?

Updated: 9/25/2023
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Can a virus release and use energy?

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.


Do medical viruses use energy?

yes medical viruses does use energy


What provides the energy for a virus?

viruses dot need energy.


What provides the energy for viruses?

The host


What is uses energy to take particles into a cell?

viruses


How do viruses obtain carbohydrates?

Viruses do not need to obtain carbohydrates or any organic compounds for that matter. Viruses are not alive and do not need energy to transport them from locations to locations.


How are viruses unlike organisms?

Unlike organisms, viruses are not cellular, nor do they have ribosomes or any other organelles for protein production, energy generation, etc. They cannot capture or store free energy but can only use energy derived from their host. Also, viruses can only reproduce via the host and not on their own.


What are reasons viruses are considered non living?

Two very important reasons are growth and reproduction. Viruses do not have a way of converting potential energy, or photonic energy, into useful forms; no metabolism. Viruses can not reproduce on their own and must hijack a cell's reproductive machinery to reproduce themselves.


Does cooking kill viruses?

Some researchers hope to use microwaves to destroy viruses, but the technique has so far proved ineffective. The water surrounding viruses absorbs the energy from microwaves. The virus doesn't receive enough microwave energy to be affected, much less destroyed.


Viruses acquire envelopes around their nucleocapsids during?

Release.


Does mitochondria release or store energy?

It release energy. It releases using Glucose (C6H12O6) and Oxygen (O2).Mitochondria release energy in glucose. Then it stores this energy in ATP


Can viruses make their own food from carbon dioxide water and light energy?

no