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Cells are classified under living things (specifically, eukaryotes), while the classification of viruses is still debatable.

Structurally, cells differ a lot from viruses. Cells have a nucleus, metabolic machinery, and in the case of plant cells photosynthetic machinery. However, viruses only contain a genome, protein coat, and in most cases a membrane envelope. The virus cannot replicate by itself, instead relying on a host cell to replicate its genome, and produce more copies of the virus.

There are different types of viruses, those in the lytic cycle and those in the lysogenic cycle. Those in the lytic cycle kill the host cell immediately after entering and replication, while those in the lysogenic cycle stay latent for a while until conditions are right before lysing the host cell.'

Cells, on the other hand, can replicate by themselves, and are able to respire.

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