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Is bactera a type of virus?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No, a bacterium is a complete, albeit single-celled organism; as such it can locomote, reproduce, and perform the other functions common to independently living things. A virus, OTOH, is a strand of DNA incapable of reproducing on its own (to do that, it's got to invade/infect a host cell).

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14y ago

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