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Why are viruses difficult to place in the category of living things?
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∙ 11y ago
Viruses are technically not living because they cannot reproduce without a host cell, they cannot move on their own, and they have no organeles.
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Viruses depend on living things for what?
Viruses depend on living cells because they reproduce inside of them.
Why is A difficult to classify virus as a livingthings?
It is difficult because viruses lack the ability to replicate themselves and theey lacks energy metabolism and other pathways that living things have. Viruses are totally depending on their host. If they want to replicate, they have to infect the host.
How viruses unlike living things?
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Do viruses need oxygen to live?
Yes. Viruses are living things too.
How can you tell the difference between bacteria and viruses?
The difference is that viruses are smaller than bacteria. One more major difference is that bacteria are living things whereas viruses are non living things.
Why can't we classify a virus as a living thing?
Viruses are not living things. Viruses are complicated assemblies of molecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates, but on their own they can do nothing until they enter a living cell. Without cells, viruses would not be able to multiply. Therefore, viruses are not living things.
Do viruses reproduce with live or dead?
viruses are nonliving things. but they need living things to reproduces. so live
Why scientist believe that virus are not living organisms?
viruses do not grow, and viruses do not respond to changes in their environment. Therefore, viruses are not living organisms. All living things reproduce, but Viruses need living cells to reproduce because Viruses cannot reproduce by themselves.
Why do scientists have difficulty including viruses in the category of living organisms?
Because a virus is not a living cell. It consists of an outer coat of protein surrounding a core of DNA or RNA. A virus can reproduce while it is inside a living host cell, but outside the host organism, it shows no sign of life. As such, viruses are not included in any of the six kingdoms of living things.
What other things that are living organism?
Everything that are living are living organisms. Every other things are not considered to be a living organism e.g. viruses.
Viruses and bacteria are which type of living thing?
Bacteria and viruses are small and can only be seen through a microscope. The small living things are microorganisms or microbes. Some people do not think viruses are living things because they are acellular particles. They consider them to be an organic structure that interacts with living organisms.
How are viruses and organisms different?
Viruses are things that spread and contain germs. An Organism is a living thing.
