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Unlike living things a virus does not make or use genetic material such as DNA. Viruses do not create their own DNA.
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How does a virus sustain life in its host?
First things first a virus is not living. The virus injects its Genetic material (G.M. for short) and and makes the bacteria make more viruses.
Do viruses multiply in foods?
viruses cannot spoil food because they need a host cell(living) to multiply. Food does not provide it a proper ambience or favourable conditions to survive/multiply.(in the atmosphere viruses are said to be dead).
What make living things different from non living things?
Living things are alive.
What are two things that make viruses hard to fight?
The two things are: 1. Viruses behave as living beings only inside another living cell and act as a non living thing when isolated or outside the living cell. 2. The genetic material of a virus is RNA not DNA which is gives complexity in its study.
How things like a virus prion and viroid can reproduce but are not considered to be alive?
The virus, prion and viroid don't meet the definition of alive which is:Movement: All living things move in some way.Respiration: Respiration is a chemical reaction that happens within cells to release energy from food.Sensitivity: The ability to detect changes in the environment.Growth: All living things grow.Reproduction: The ability to reproduce and pass genetic information onto their offspring.Excretion: Getting rid of waste.Nutrition: The intake and use of nutrients.All living things do all of these things. Viruses make use of living cells.
The process by which living things make more living things is?
Reproduction.
What provides energy for an virus?
A virus does not have a metabolism. To reproduce, a virus takes control of a living cell, forcing the cell to make copies of the virus. All energy is provided by the cell.
What are two things make viruses different to plants and animals?
1. they don't have cells, virus is a chunk of nucleic acid with a protein coat. 2. most viruses are destructive and they reproduce inside living things.
Is salmonella a virus?
No. They are bacteria. Viruses are non-living particles. They make you sick by landing on a living cell, reproducing using the cell, and then destroying the cell. The new viruses do the same. Bacteria are living single-celled organisms. The few that make you sick (about 1/15 of bacteria are pathogenic, meaning make you sick) make you sick by taking the nutrients out of other living cells. So, technically, since bacteria and viruses are completely different things, I don't think there's a such thing as a bacterial virus as one organism
How does a virus different from a living cell?
viruses do not grow, take in food, or make waste living cell make waste, take in food, grow
What are basic units that make up living things?
The basic units that make up living things are called cells.
What do living thing do to make more living thing?
Living things reproduce.
