What does a virus need in order to survive?

Answer 1

the virus needs a host cell. it invades the cell, and then makes the cell make more viruses, and then they burst out and destroy the cell that they came from, and they invade more cells, and its just one big chain.

Then it starts to destroy the T cells

Answer 2

A virus needs a host cell to survive and replicate. Once inside a host cell, the virus can hijack the cell's machinery to make copies of itself. Without a host cell, viruses cannot survive for long periods outside of a living organism.

Answer 3

It needs a host cell(living cell) to replicate the virus's DNA

Answer 4

A host, i believe

(don't trust this answer completely

because i am not sure)

Answer 5

A virus doesn't really need anything to survive. It can last forever frozen. But to produce more of itself it needs a living cell.

Answer 6

A host cell.

Answer 7

A host.