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Why is it necessary for a virus to invade a living cell to make copies of itself?
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∙ 11y ago
Since viruses are nonliving they have to invade and hijack a living cells DNA to make more copies of itself. If it cannot do this it cannot make more copies of itself.
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reproduction
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