A virus is much larger than bacteria. Generally, bacteria are several orders of magnitude larger than viruses.
Most bacteria are measured in micrometers (or millionths of a meter). Most measure between 1 and 5 micrometers.
Viruses are measured, on the other hand, in nanometers, or 1000th a micrometer. The virus causing the common cold, the rhinovirus, is about 20 nanometers.
A virus is of course non-cellular. Its typical size is 20-30nm. They contain no cytoplasm or organelles and no chromosomes just RNA and DNA strands. They are covered in a protein coat. They cannot function out side of a living cell, they need a host cell to use its organelles to reproduce and function. But as you know a normal cell is a complete opposite, they can function and reproduce on their own due to their nucleus and they do contain cytoplasm,organelles and chromosomes as well as RNA and DNA strands.
Quite a bit.
With a diameter of 220 nanometers, the measles virus is about 8 times smaller than E.coli bacteria. At 45 nm, the hepatitis virus is about 40 times smaller than E.coli.
For a sense of how small this is, David R. Wessner, a professor of Biology at Davidson College, provides an analogy in a 2010 article published in the journal Nature Education: The polio virus, 30 nm across, is about 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt.
Such differences in size between viruses and bacteria provided the critical first clue of the former’s existence.
No.
Virus particles are slightly smaller than a cell.
Viruses are much much smaller than bacteria, roughly near two orders of magnitude smaller (although there is considerable variation between species of virus as to actual size).
No.Virus particles are slightly smaller than a cell.
No. It is thousands of times smaller.
Viruses are typically composed of RNA surrounded by a capsid (protein shell). This would mean by definition that the virus molecule, which is technically considered nonliving, is larger than a protein strand (because the capsid is made of protein).
Red blood cell
As far as biological viruses, the prion is smaller than a virus. It it a misfolded protein.
the virus is the smallest, a bacteria is usally bigger than a virus and a fungi is usally bigger than a bacteria
No, a virus is much smaller than bacteria.
A virus affects humans by invading a cell. The virus then forces the cell to produce viral material rather than cell material. This causes the cell to replicate the virus rather than itself.
I will arrange these items in order; largest to smallest. eukaryotic cell----prokaryotic cell---virus Proteins---lipids ( I would not swear by this second answer )
I know I'm fat and I like it. i am a blood cell
a virus has no metabolism.a virus cannot reproduce independently, it must infect a cell.a virus is much smaller than a cell.
Yes, the photovoltaic cell is bigger than the solar cell.