Question

Give characteristics of viruses

and fungi.

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Answer 1

Answer:

Viruses are infectious agents with both living and nonliving characteristics. They can infect animals, plants, and even other microorganisms. Viruses that infect only bacteria are called bacteriophages and those that infect only fungi are termed mycophages .

Answer 2

Answer:

• 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.