Question

Viruses show both living and non − living characteristics. Explain.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Viruses show both living and non − living characteristics as follows:

i. Living characteristics of viruses:

a. Viruses are obligate parasites like other living obligate parasites.

b. Viruses also possess nucleic acids and proteins like any other LIVINGSTON organisms.

c. Viruses reproduce their own kind like other living organisms.

d. Viruses transmit their hereditary characters from one generation to the other as other living organisms do.

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ii. Non-living characteristics of viruses:

a. Viruses can be crystallized like any other chemical substance.

b. Viruses do not carry out metabolic activities.

c. Viruses become inactive outside the host cells.

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Answer 2

Answer:

virus are non- living in external environment because they have no meadium no medium to react upon it but in a human body virus provided a medium for action so it is living in human body.