Question

What are viruses? What are general characteristic of viruses?​

Answer 1

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. Instead, new viral components are synthesized and assembled within the infected host cell.

Answer 2

Answer:

viruses other organisms that produce only inside the cells of the host organisms