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Can viruses reproduce by themselves?
No. Viruses must invade a host cell and hijack its resources to replicate itself.
Do viruses produce proteins?
Viruses hijack the cell and use the cell's machinery to produce proteins.
Viruses make the host cell produce new viruses which kills th host cell?
Yes, viruses hijack the host cell's machinery to replicate themselves, eventually causing the cell to burst and release new viruses. This process, known as lysis, results in the death of the host cell.
What action do viruses take when they enter the body' cell?
Viruses enter the body's cell and hijack the cell's machinery to replicate themselves. They use the cell's resources to make copies of their own genetic material and viral proteins, eventually leading to the destruction of the host cell as new viruses are released.
What does a host cell provide a virus?
A way of replicating itself. Viruses can not replicate themselves because they are, basically, genetic material covered in a protein capsid. So, they must enter a living cell, hijack the reproductive process of the cell and have the cell turn out copies of the viruses genetic material and protein capsid. Then the viruses manufactured in the cell causes lysis of the cell and the viruses emerge to infect more cells. A simplified expexplanation of the lytic cycle.
Can viruses can reproduce by themselves?
No. Viruses must invade a host cell and hijack its resources to replicate itself.
Can viruses reproduce by themselves?
No. Viruses must invade a host cell and hijack its resources to replicate itself.
Do viruses produce proteins?
Viruses hijack the cell and use the cell's machinery to produce proteins.
How viruses like hijackers?
Many viruses hide in (or 'hijack') a healthy cell - so as not to be discovered by the body's immune system.
Viruses make the host cell produce new viruses which kills th host cell?
Yes, viruses hijack the host cell's machinery to replicate themselves, eventually causing the cell to burst and release new viruses. This process, known as lysis, results in the death of the host cell.
How are viruses like non living things?
Viruses are not alive. They are infectious particles. They hijack a living cell's DNA and force it to make viruses parts instead of living cell parts. The cell is made to assemble to parts and the new viruses bust out of the cell, killing it, and infect more cells.
What do viruses eat?
Viruses do not technically "eat" in the same way that living organisms do. Instead, they rely on host cells to replicate and reproduce. Once inside a host cell, a virus will hijack the cell's machinery to make copies of itself.
What action do viruses take when they enter the body' cell?
Viruses enter the body's cell and hijack the cell's machinery to replicate themselves. They use the cell's resources to make copies of their own genetic material and viral proteins, eventually leading to the destruction of the host cell as new viruses are released.
Can a virus release and use energy?
Virus particles have no metabolism and does not use energy. However, some viruses have kinetic energy stored in the high pressure inside them, this energy is released when they squirt their genome into the host cell. When they hijack the cell to make more viruses the cell will use energy to produce new viruses.
What does a host cell provide a virus?
A way of replicating itself. Viruses can not replicate themselves because they are, basically, genetic material covered in a protein capsid. So, they must enter a living cell, hijack the reproductive process of the cell and have the cell turn out copies of the viruses genetic material and protein capsid. Then the viruses manufactured in the cell causes lysis of the cell and the viruses emerge to infect more cells. A simplified expexplanation of the lytic cycle.
Can viruses maintain homiostasis?
Viruses cannot maintain homeostasis on their own as they rely on host cells to replicate. Once inside a host cell, they hijack the cell's machinery to replicate and produce more viral particles, often causing disruption to the cell's normal functions and homeostasis.
When a virus infects a bacterium what does the virus inject into the cell?
It's genetic material and some enzymes sometimes which hijack the bacteria into making more viruses.
