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Briefly describe some of the characteristics of viruses

Briefly describe some of the characteristics of viruses.

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Mukuha
Viruses are infectious agents with both living and
nonliving characteristics. ie

1.Living Characteristics

a. They reproduce at a
fantastic rate, but only
in living host cells.
b. They can mutate.

2.Nonliving Characteristics.

a. They are acellular, that
is, they contain no
cytoplasm or cellular
organelles.
b. They carry out no
metabolism on their
own and must replicate
using the host cell's
metabolic machinery. In
other words, viruses
don't grow and divide.
Instead, new viral
components are
synthesized and
assembled within the
infected host cell.
c. The vast majority of
viruses possess either
DNA or RNA but not
both.
JOSPHAT58 answered the question on June 28, 2018 at 08:08

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