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How can viruses eat?

Viruses cannot eat because they lack the cellular machinery for metabolism. Instead, viruses hijack host cells and use their machinery to replicate themselves. This process often damages or destroys the host cell.


What kingdom is influenza in?

Viruses are classified differently than living organisms, since they are not technically alive. In taxonomy, viruses are not assigned to a Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, or Order. The influenza viruses start, in most classification systems, at the level of the Family. They are in the Family of Orthomyxoviridae. There are a few newer classification systems that have been developed to better categorize and classify viruses, but these are not yet the standard.


What kingdoms are viruses in?

Viruses are not considered to be part of any of the traditional biological kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, etc.). They are typically classified in a separate group known as the kingdom Viruses or under domain as Obligate Intracellular Parasites.


What domain is virus?

Viruses are classified under the domain of "Riboviria," which includes viruses with RNA genomes. Viruses are not considered to be living organisms because they cannot replicate or carry out metabolic processes on their own and require a host cell to reproduce.


Why is it difficult to classify viruses into one of the 5 kingdoms of living organisms?

Viruses lack the characteristics of living organisms, such as cellular structure and metabolism, making it challenging to classify them within the traditional system of biological classification. Additionally, viruses are considered obligate intracellular parasites that can only replicate inside host cells, further complicating their classification within the existing kingdom system.

Related Questions

How can viruses eat?

Viruses cannot eat because they lack the cellular machinery for metabolism. Instead, viruses hijack host cells and use their machinery to replicate themselves. This process often damages or destroys the host cell.


What microbes can I eat?

fungi bacteria viruses


Is viruses a producer or consumer?

Neither - viruses do not eat. There are debates about whether viruses are a form of life, or organic structures that interact with living organisms.


Mode feeding of virus?

Viruses are not alive and so do not "eat".


What eats viruses?

Not sure if any bacteria/protists eat viruses, but our white blood cells definitely do. How do you think you fight a cold?


Bacteria and viruses cause disease?

yup it can so eat healthy


How does the blue mole virus get its food?

Viruses do not eat, they parasitize cells.


Do insects eat viruses?

Insects do not eat viruses in the traditional sense, as they lack the necessary mechanisms to digest them. However, some insects can ingest viruses when feeding on infected plants or other organisms. Certain insects, like aphids, can also act as vectors, transmitting viruses between plants. While they don't consume viruses for nutrition, their interactions with them can significantly impact ecosystems and agricultural systems.


Do mris cause viruses to eat your blood cells?

Sometimes they do and people can die from it.


Why do antibodies force viruses to clamp together?

so they can eat them at once, and stop them from spreading i mean antibodies eat the virus up....


What do viruses do to cells in the body?

it will eat the cells unlike good ones eat dead tissue (a group of same-cells working as one).


What part of the host do bacteria and viruses eat?

viruses dont eat anything because they are not living, bacteria eat anything they can find, they break down what they can find and absorb it, the feed on glucose just like every other heterotrophic organism