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Can a virus live outside a cell?
No
Do biologists consider viruses living or nonliving?
Biologists consider dormant virions to be non-living because they must obtain a host to function and replicate themselves. However, active viruses are considered to be living, by most scientists.
How are bacteria different from viruses?
viruses are not alive. APEX
Can a virus replicate outside a living cell?
What we need to understand is, viruses do not have its own synthetic machinery such as ribosomes to make proteins. Hence they are completely dependent on the host synthetic machinery for their replication. Virus infects the host cells, integrate its genetic material with the host to produce progeny viral particles.
Which is the difference between bacteria and viruses that shows the bacteria are living organisms and viruses are not?
Only Bacteria can reproduce outside of a host.. Bacteria are made of cells
Why are viruses hard to cultivate in the laboratory?
Viruses are hard to cultivate in the laboratory because they require living host cells to replicate. This dependency on living cells makes it challenging to maintain viruses outside of a host organism. Additionally, viruses can be very specific about the types of cells they can infect, which further complicates the cultivation process.
2 reasons why viruses are non living?
Viruses are considered non-living because they lack cellular structure and cannot carry out metabolic processes independently; they require a host cell to replicate and reproduce. Additionally, viruses do not exhibit growth or respond to stimuli in the way living organisms do, as they remain inert outside of a host.
Why are viruses consider to be nonliving?
They cannot live outside of a host.
Are Viruses able to reproduce without using other organisms?
viruses are dormant when they are not inside a living cell. that means they don't have living characteristics when outside a living cell. they only reproduce when they are inside a living cell.
Can a virus without its host for very long?
If you are asking if a virus can live very long without its host, then no. Viruses aren't alive in the first place. Because viruses can't reproduce on their own, they are not considered living organisms. Because they aren't living to begin with, they cannot die.
Characteristics of livivng and non-living viruses?
viruses are connecting link between living and non-living, as they show only one character of living biengs i.e. reproduction but that too is in inside living host cell otherwise they are consider as nonlivings
When do viruses reproduce?
viruses can not reproduce without the help of a living cell(host).they remain inert or dead(in-active) when they are in free environment or outside the body(host).when they enter the living cell or in some cases insert their nucleic acid into the host,it takes over the host's biosynthetic machinery and forces it to reproduce essential viral components and after proper assembly the cell burst and viruses leave the cell to infect other cells
