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Viruses do not have the machinery required to synthesise proteins or replicate themselves, they need a host cell to do it for them. They infect a cell by inserting their own DNA or RNA and essentially hijack the host cell, tricking it into producing many copies new of the virus that can then go on to infect more host cells.

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