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What is the difference between a virus and an animal cell and is a virus determined as living?
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∙ 14y ago
Living things exhibit the characteristics of moving, respiration, reproduction, growth, etc. A virus does not exhibit any of these things except reproduction, however it can only do this when inside a host cell.
A virus cannot be considered either distinctly a living or nonliving organism. This is because while it does not full satisfy the definition of a living organism, it cannot be considered dead either because they replicate once they are within a living cell (a characteristic that is not possessed by dead organisms).
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 14y agoWell, your second question pretty much answered your first. A virus is not living (we'll get to that later) and a cell is (so an animal cell is). That's one difference. Another is that animal cells appear on animals. But plants can also contract viruses, not just animals. Life has seven characteristics: You can look that up on this website, someone already answered that question. Therefore, a virus is not living because it cannot live on its own, it's dependent on a host. One last bit, it's dependent on the host to reproduce. Without the host, a virus cannot reproduce and is thus nonliving. Viruses can crystallize like non living things and reproduce like living things. But they are not living because they are not made of cells but something else. That question is not included in this site. They use the cells of other organisms to reproduce, get nourishment, etc.
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∙ 14y agoAnimal Cell: Living, Many parts, organelles, DNA as genetic material, bound by cell membrane
Virus: Not living, Two parts, No organelles, DNA or RNA as genetic material, bound by a capsid (protein sheath)
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∙ 15y agoa virus needs a 'host' cell to survive and reproduce (its not self contained, it 'bolts on' to living cells and take sthem over.
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∙ 9y agoA virus cannot reproduce with out a host, while living cell can self-reproduce. Cells need nutrients but viruses do not. Cells metabolize but viruses do not.
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∙ 14y agoViruses Do not have nuclei. The reason they are not considered prokaryotic is because they do not have many cellular functions such as metabolism and protein production.
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∙ 13y agoVirus is a non-living organism whilst an animal cell is a living organism (unless it's dead).
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