A virus is considered as a living organism and an obligate parasite when inside a host cell. But virus is not classified along with bacteria or fungi. What are the characters of virus that are similar to non-living objects?
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virus is considered as a living organism and an obligate parasite when inside a host cell. ... Theviruses do not have a cellularstructure and are characterized by the presence of an inert crystalline structure outside the living cell. They do not have any cellorganelles. These features aresimilar to the non-living.
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Properties of viruses that show similarity to non-living objects are
- outside the host cells, viruses are nonliving that consists of protein and genetic material only.
- They cannot divide or replicate outside host cell.
- They lack a cell walls and other vital cell organelles such as mitochondria , plastids, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus, well defined nucleus.
- outside the host cell they are metabolically inactive and show no characteristic of living from such as metabolism, reproduction, growth etc.
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