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The two things are:

1. Viruses behave as living beings only inside another living cell and act as a non living thing when isolated or outside the living cell.

2. The genetic material of a virus is RNA not DNA which is gives complexity in its study.

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Why do viruses make us feel ill?

Viruses make us feel ill by invading our cells and causing damage to our tissues. This triggers an immune response that can lead to symptoms such as fever, muscle aches, and fatigue as our body fights off the infection. Additionally, the toxins produced by viruses can contribute to the symptoms of illness.


What are the benefits of having a fever?

Fever is a natural response by the body to fight off infections. It helps to activate the immune system and make it more effective at killing bacteria and viruses. Additionally, a fever can also help to slow down the growth of certain bacteria and viruses, making it harder for them to reproduce.


Can a virus make ATP?

Viruses use energy in the form of ATP to function. All living things will need ATP so as to function in a normal manner.


What are very tiny living things?

Very tiny living things include microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. These microscopic organisms are essential for various ecological processes and can be found in almost every environment on Earth.


What characteristics of living things do viruses have?

Viruses are not an organism at all. They are not alive. They are nonliving. They are like cockle burrs that "grab" hold of your clothing or a dog's coat. They are hijackers. Once they get attached to the cell of a living cell, they can take it over and "make" the living cell produce virus particles instead of cell parts. These particles can assemble into more viruses and then they break out of the cell (killing it) and begin the process again. They cannot make more viruses on their own.

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What does the body make to fight viruses?

Body has got immune system. This immune system or the body immunity forms the antibodies to fight the viruses. The immunity against the viruses is usually life long.


What are some names of helpful viruses?

There are no real "Helpful Viruses". Viruses are viruses. They make things go wrong with your computer.


How can you make your system free from all kind of errors and viruses?

Remove the hard drives.


If you put a new processor and harddrive on an old computer with viruses will it make it fast?

The viruses are in your data on the hard drives. The new processor will help speed up the machine but will not remove the viruses.


What do cells in the body do?

they help you from getting disease , your white blood cell help fight viruses that can make you sick.


What good things to viruses do?

they make you give birth to chickens


How do antiviral medicines work?

They work by stoping the virus from reproducing but they are hard to make because the viruses are constantly changing


What are two things make viruses different to plants and animals?

1. they don't have cells, virus is a chunk of nucleic acid with a protein coat. 2. most viruses are destructive and they reproduce inside living things.


Unlike living things a virus does not make or use?

Unlike living things a virus does not make or use genetic material such as DNA. Viruses do not create their own DNA.


What can forces make things do?

rape,anger,bullying,fight,lying


Should you download zwinky?

yes you should it is really fun but there is a lot of viruses and things that make your computer slow.


What makes the flu virus so hard to fight?

As infectious diseases go, it is not that hard for the body to fight and the immune system can usually fight it within 7 to 10 days. Sometimes two weeks, like in some people with H1N1, but a normal healthy person with a healthy immune system can fight a flu virus faster than it can fight a bacterial infection in many cases, especially without other treatment like antibiotics to help. The flu virus is hard to fight with any medications, which is the opposite of most bacterial infections. There are not many medications for treating the flu and there are no medicines that "kill" the virus outright like antibiotics that we have to kill bacteria. Viruses are able to mutate rapidly and make little changes to their shape, protein coatings and other things to help them avoid the defenses the body may have developed to it before the mutation. The body must start all over again to build immunity to the newest mutation. This makes it so that more and more "new" viruses are developing all the time that we have to one by one fight and create antibodies for protection against. This "getting-around-our-immune-systems" defense" is how viruses continue to infect and replicate even after we have inactivated a prior version of the virus with our antibodies.