What a cell and a virus have in common is the RNA or DNA. The virus can be either a RNA virus or a DNA virus.
takes over another cell and control it and it tells it to reproduce
No where. A virus is not a cell.
Both a virus and a living cell contain genetic material (either DNA or RNA) that carries instructions for replication and functioning. They both use this genetic material to produce proteins and carry out essential biological processes.
Ok, the common cold virus has little things around it that look like keys. The virus enters your respiratory tract, like the nose or mouth and goes to a cell, the little key-things try to open big proteins on a cell tha looks like a lock then, the molecules or organelles in a cell welcome the virus. When the virus enters the nucleus of the cell it goes to a "factory" and it uses our DNA to copy its own DNA, and it keeps reproducing until there are millions of them but luckily we have our immune system, white cells, and they "eat" the virus.
The cell infected by a virus is referred to as the host cell. The virus hijacks the host cell's machinery to replicate and produce more virus particles.
A virus.
Both a living cell and a virus contain nucleic acid. The virus has a capsid, whereas a living cell does not.
The cell invaded by the virus is called a host cell because it provides the environment and resources necessary for the virus to replicate and multiply. The virus uses the host cell's machinery to produce more viruses, ultimately leading to the destruction of the host cell.
It has no nucleus, though technically a virus is not a cell at all.
A virus will replicate within a host cell.
It is called a host cell. The virus attaches to the cell and injects its DNA into the cell. The virus's DNA overruns the "instructions" that the cell has and "tells" the cell to make copies of the virus using the DNA. Then the cell makes so many copies of the virus, that it explodes. The new viruses then go on to attach to other cells.
a virus