Question

how do viruses work?

Subject biology







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Answer 1

• Virus - A pathogenic, parasitic organism which is not differentiated as being alive, as a cell is an essential to our terminology of life.

• A virus has no cell membrane, no metabolism, no respiration and can't replicate outside of a living cell.

• A virus is a half-live, single strand or double strand of DNA or RNA or both, looking for a cell to invade.

• Once it enters inside the body, it reprograms the cell with its DNA / RNA and multiplies on mass, bursting through the cell with a new viruses seeking new cells to invade.

• RNA viruses mutate more easily than DNA viruses.

• Example - Bird flu, Swine flu, Hepatitis, Measles, Polio, Yellow fever, and Ebola.