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Technically, viruses are not alive, thus they are not a cell. You may be referring to the protein capsid in which the nucleic acid of the virus is enclosed in. The contents of the capsid may vary depending on the virus, but it can be ssDNA, dsDNA, ssRNA, or dsRNA.

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