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What type of cell are viruses?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 3/15/2022

None. Viruses are acellular. Many biologists do not consider viruses to be living things in part because they are acellular. Look at any phylogeny (tree of life). Viruses are not on them.

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Vincent Hilpert

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3y ago

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