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The characteristics have been determined to seven different actions, (movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition, known as MRS GREN)
Viruses have been found to complete no independent metabolic activity. They can move from cell to cell through actions such as sneezing and coughing if a respiratory virus, or contamination from bile and faeces.
They can also not respire, as they don't carry the required enzymes to do this. All they do is insert their DNA into the host cell for it to be reproduced through mitosis, and make the cell burst so as the dna is in the bloodstream.
In terms of sensetivity, they have no sensetivity, as they have no sensory input.
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Is there one or several flesh eating viruses?
Surprisingly yeas there is a few *flesh eating viruses/bacteria*
How are viruses similar to living organisms?
There is a lot of debate about this one. Viruses are dimply DNA in a protein capsule. They have none of the cellular machinery that sustains life, but instead use the resources of the host cell. Some consider viruses to be a form of life. Others do not.
What characteristics of life do viruses show?
Several traits could lead one to consider viruses as living organisms. They carry and transmit their own genetic information, they consume resources, they move, or rather they take advantage of a host in order to move, and they initiate self-replication when in a suitable host.
Describes an organism that consists of a single cell?
A unicellular organism that has only one cell. One of the largest of these is called Valonia centricosa. Bacteria is also in this classification. They carry out life processes to survive.
What shapes do virus assume?
Viruses can be helical and icosahedral forms or even more complex structures. Most viruses are about one one-hundredth the size of the average bacterium.
What one of the 7 life processes can viruses do?
VIruses can only reproduce. They can not respire, excrete, nutrition, grow, they don't have sensetivity either. Remember: viruses still are living things because they have genes in them.:) hope it helped. thanks! :P
Will a couple glasses of wine show up 20 hours later?
Only one day? Definitely You have no idea the sensitivity of today's chemical processes.
What is one property of life that viruses share with living things?
they both have at least one cell.
How does the mitochondria function?
It uses one of the seven life processes, Respiration.
What one of the seven life processes can a virus not do?
they cant conduct reprodution
Why is there is debate about the viruses being alive or dead?
The debate is not about whether viruses are alive or dead. Rather, there is debate about whether a virus should be considered a living thing. Viruses are not like living cells, because they do not have metabolic processes, and they cannot reproduce themselves. Instead, they invade a host cell, and the virus's genes cause the host cell to produce new viruses. However, the question of whether this "counts" as being alive is a semantic one. Viruses have some properties of living things, and they lack other properties, so the question of whether they are "alive" comes down to one's definition of the word "life."
What are the six life procesess?
There are a great many different life processes depending on who you talk to. One life process is breathing in and out.
With which one of the eight life processes is cyclosis most closely associated?
transprt
Did viruses have all the characteristics of living things?
Viruses share a few characteristics with living organisms but not many, viruses are essentially just chains of proteins. They contain genetic information but they do not have any cellular stucture as most other forms of life do. The average virus about one one-hundredth the size of the average bacterium and viruses do not have their own metabolism but require a host cell.
Is a pan of water a living thing?
No. If it wass living it would have one of the 7 life processes
Are viruses identified as livivg things yes or no?
viruses are not living things because they only carry out reproduction which is only one of the characteristics of a living thing. a thing to be called living it should have all the seven characteristics listed below: Respiration - viruses don't respire(breathe) Nutrition - viruses do not feed Excretion - since they don't eat and breathe they don't give out anything Sensitivity - they are not aware of the surrounding expect for their survival Growth - viruses don't grow no increase or decreaase in size Movement - they move Reproduction- they reproduce since only two characteristics are present viruses are declared non living .
What are one or more cells that carry out all of the processes needed to sustain life called?
It's an organism
