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Viruses can insert their genetic material into a host cell's DNA, causing mutations or alterations in the DNA sequence. This can disrupt normal cellular processes, leading to diseases or potential long-term effects on the host's genetic material.


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Are there DNA viruses?

Most viruses have either RNA or DNA bound in a basic membrane. During infection, they will inject this into the host cell so that the host cell can read and use its own mechanisms to replicate the virus.


Can virus get a bacteria?

Yes- Bacterial viruses are called bacteriophages. Some examples are T4 and T7 phages. They are complex DNA viruses that attach themselves to the cell surface and then inject their DNA to the inside of the bacteria. Bacteria have enzymes called restriction enzymes that cleave DNA at specific sites called restriction sites. These enzymes are the bacterium's defense against phages.


What does bacteriophage inject into a cell?

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Can you kill yourself if you inject yourself with animsal DNA?

well it may develop into cancer if other DNA is mixed into your body's cell. but not inject anyway.


How does viruses classificate?

DNA and RNA viruses.


What word inject DNA or RNA into the nucleus of a cell to reproduce?

DNA or RNA


Why does a virus not have both DNA and RNA?

Because it doesn't use it's DNA or RNA to function, it uses it to inject into a cell and switch the cell's instructions to its own so the cell will make more viruses. Cells have DNA and RNA to tell the cell what to do, but viruses just do it naturally. Viruses have no use for both.


How does a nonliving virus get their food?

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Is there anything that does not contain DNA?

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What injects DNA and RNA into nucleus of the cell to reproduce?

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