What is the difference of a bacteria to a virus?

Answer 1

Although bacteria and viruses are both too small to be seen without a microscope, they're as different as giraffes and goldfish. Bacteria are relatively complex, single-celled creatures with a rigid wall and a thin, rubbery membrane surrounding the fluid inside the cell. They can reproduce on their own.

Answer 2

A bacterium is a single-celled, often parasitic microorganism without a distinct nucleus or an organized cell structure. It has cytoplasm and a cell wall, but no true nucleus. Various species are responsible for decay, fermentation, nitrogen fixation, and many plant and animal diseases.

Bacteria are classed in a kingdom of their own, prokaryota (although, this kingdom may now be regarded as two separate kingdoms, archaea and bacteria).

A virus is a submicroscopic parasitic particle consisting of a strand of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat (capsid). It does not have cytoplasm or a nucleus and can only replicate within a host cell (has parasitic nature).

Viruses are not considered to be independent living organisms as the only characteristic of life they show is reproduction.

Answer 3

Bacteria are living organisms with a complete cellular structure. Meaning they have a cell nucleus among other things.

Viruses are not technically living "creatures" but rather are more of a "bundle" of proteins that use other living organisms (like humans or cattle for example) to replicate their protein structure.

Answer 4

Bacteria are single-celled organisms that can reproduce and survive on their own, while viruses are only able to replicate inside a host cell. Bacteria can be beneficial or harmful, while viruses are generally considered harmful as they cause illness. Bacteria have cell walls and can be treated with antibiotics, while viruses do not have cells walls and cannot be treated with antibiotics.

Answer 5

viruses are non living and bacteria are living organisms