Virus does not show characteristics of life.why?
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because virus lies on the verge of living and non living organisms. it can show living characteristics only when present in the body of a living organism else it is inactive.
Virus does not show characteristics of life. Why?
Virus interconnects between living and non living. It acts as living, and can multiply when it's on a host which is live. In non living things, It's also non living that is, it won't multiply. Thus, It can be said virus doesn't show characteristic of life.
Apart from this, Virus don't show main characteristics of life. Basically, Characteristics of life can be said to as, arrangement of cells, nutrition, response to stimuli, growth, reproduction, metabolism. But Virus don't have most of them / don't perform most of them. Hence, can be said as Virus don't show characteristics of life.
Some familiar examples are, Tobacco Mosaic Virus ( TMV) , Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV).