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How is a virus and cell the same?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

they arent the same a virus is technically not condidered living because it does not have all the proper organells but it can count as a protist or a parasite which needs to attach itself to a host to live and reproduce that is another reason viruses are not like cellls because they cannot reproduce on their own they need a host and once they infect the host they reproduce the same virus and so on

but anyway a cell is like a virus for a number of reasons just Google it retard

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