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Viruses do not need energy, as they are completely dormant outside of a host cell. Once they come into contact with the host cell they use the host's energy to replicate themselves by graphing their own genetic code into the cell's. So in reality based on how they exist and function viruses don't' need to exert or gain energy.

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