Question

characteristics of virus

Answer 1

Explanation:

• They are acellular, that is, they contain no cytoplasm or cellular organelles.
• They are acellular, that is, they contain no cytoplasm or cellular organelles.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. ...
• They are acellular, that is, they contain no cytoplasm or cellular organelles.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. ...The vast majority of viruses possess either DNA or RNA but not both.

Answer 2

Characteristics of Virus are:-

1. Smaller & simpler than bacteria.
2. Ultramicroscopic & visible only under an electron microscope.
3. Considered to be on the boundary line of living & non-living things.
4. Obligate parasites and cannot live on their own.
5. Cannot multiply on their own. They require living machinery to multiply.
6. Consist of genetic materials (DNA or RNA).