What is the difference of a bacteria to a virus?

Answer 1

Although bacteria and viruses are both too small to be seen without a microscope, they're as different as giraffes and goldfish. Bacteria are relatively complex, single-celled creatures with a rigid wall and a thin, rubbery membrane surrounding the fluid inside the cell. They can reproduce on their own.

Answer 2

A bacterium is a single-celled, often parasitic microorganism without a distinct nucleus or an organized cell structure. It has cytoplasm and a cell wall, but no true nucleus. Various species are responsible for decay, fermentation, nitrogen fixation, and many plant and animal diseases.

Bacteria are classed in a kingdom of their own, prokaryota (although, this kingdom may now be regarded as two separate kingdoms, archaea and bacteria).

A virus is a submicroscopic parasitic particle consisting of a strand of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat (capsid). It does not have cytoplasm or a nucleus and can only replicate within a host cell (has parasitic nature).

Viruses are not considered to be independent living organisms as the only characteristic of life they show is reproduction.

Answer 3

Bacteria are living organisms with a complete cellular structure. Meaning they have a cell nucleus among other things.

Viruses are not technically living "creatures" but rather are more of a "bundle" of proteins that use other living organisms (like humans or cattle for example) to replicate their protein structure.

Answer 4

viruses are non living and bacteria are living organisms