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Viruses do not have the necessary cellular machinery to generate or release energy on their own. Instead, they rely on hijacking the host cell's metabolic processes and machinery to replicate and produce energy for their own purposes.

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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.


Do medical viruses use energy?

yes medical viruses does use energy


What provides the energy for a virus?

viruses dot need energy.


What provides the energy for viruses?

The host


What statement is true Viruses have organelles. Viruses can reproduce by themselves. Viruses are not living. Viruses produce their own energy?

The true statement is that viruses are not living. Unlike living organisms, viruses lack cellular structures and cannot reproduce or produce energy on their own; they require a host cell to replicate and carry out their functions. Therefore, they do not possess organelles or the ability to reproduce independently.


What is uses energy to take particles into a cell?

viruses


How are viruses unlike organisms?

Unlike organisms, viruses are not cellular, nor do they have ribosomes or any other organelles for protein production, energy generation, etc. They cannot capture or store free energy but can only use energy derived from their host. Also, viruses can only reproduce via the host and not on their own.


Can viruses produce their own energy?

Energy cannot be produced, it can only be changed, obtained, or lost. Viruses are not considered living organisms. They are merely a sophisticated chemical compound that only replicate themselves by hacking into a particular host cell. When a new virus is created, energy is stored as chemical energy in the virus. A virus will only have chemical energy. Viruses do not have a control center or brain, so it doesn't use or obtain energy purposely. No, they cannot; they are totally reliant upon the host cell for all of their biochemical (including maintenance and reproduction) functions. NO,when it enters a living cell it gets energy to act


Does cooking kill viruses?

Some researchers hope to use microwaves to destroy viruses, but the technique has so far proved ineffective. The water surrounding viruses absorbs the energy from microwaves. The virus doesn't receive enough microwave energy to be affected, much less destroyed.


Does viruses releases harmful toxins?

Viruses themselves do not release toxins. Instead, they replicate and spread by hijacking the host cell's machinery. However, some viruses can cause infected cells to release toxins as part of the immune response, leading to symptoms of illness.


Do viruses get and use materials and energy?

yes and they obtain the materials of their host cell


Can viruses make their own food from carbon dioxide water and light energy?

no