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Is flu virus a living thing or non-living ting?

The flu virus is considered a non-living thing. It is a microscopic particle that requires a host cell to replicate and survive.


Why arent some virus considered to be a living thing?

because all right


What is a small non-living infectious particle?

A virus or a prion.


What organism does the flu virus represent?

The flu virus is a virus. It is a non-living particle that infects living cells, takes over their machinery and makes more of themselves.


What is an entity that can get you sick invade your body but is not technically a living thing?

a virus because they are not considered living due to the fact that they can only reproduce my attack host cells


What is a nonliving particle that causes a disease?

Viruses are considered to be non-living things, and are capable of causing disease. The reason viruses are not considered living is because they lack many of the characteristics of life until they infect a host cell.


What is a tiny particle that has characteristics of both living and nonliving things?

This is (generally) referring to a VIRUS particle. Viruses can reproduce (a characteristic of living organisms) but may also be crystallised (a characteristic of non-living organisms). For this reason, a good number of scientists prefer not to talk of a virus as a living thing and even find discord classifying it under the normal taxonomic concepts and rules.


Is Ebola virus a living or non-living organisim?

Virus cannot considered living. They lack cellular organization


A tiny nonliving particle that enters and the reproduces inside a living cell?

at first i was crying but then it just hit me it was a stupied virus


Virus is living or nonliving?

A virus is considered non-living. It does not have all the characteristics of a living thing unlike bacteria. Viruses need living cells to reproduce while any living things can reproduce (asexually or not).


A particle of nucleic acid and protein that can reproduce only by infecting living cells?

virus


Why is a virus not considered a living organism?

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