why are viruses considered as being at the border line between living and nonliving things
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because it behave like non-living things when it not in contact of any living thing .but when he goes inside any living thing it behave like living so virus is consider as being border line between loving and non living thing
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This is due to virus being an obligate parasite. It is inert or a nonliving being outisde the host cell. An inert virus is defined as virion. It can be crystallised and stored indefinitely.
A bio synthetic machinery is completely absent. There is no site and system to even live erste the energy. A virus does not or never grows. It does not divides and reproduce like a typical organism. Instead of threat however, it multiplies by independent formation of its parts using the hosts machinery and then assembly of parts to produce virus particles or copied of them which might even mutate (In simple means becomes active inside the host cell or body).
A virus lacks irritability and motility. It requires a specific vector for transfer from one host to the another one. Some viruses having an arthropod as well as the vector present in it or an intermediate host is called as arbovirus.
A bio synthetic machinery is completely absent. There is no site and system to even live erste the energy. A virus does not or never grows. It does not divides and reproduce like a typical organism. Instead of threat however, it multiplies by independent formation of its parts using the hosts machinery and then assembly of parts to produce virus particles or copied of them which might even mutate (In simple means becomes active inside the host cell or body).
A virus lacks irritability and motility. It requires a specific vector for transfer from one host to the another one. Some viruses having an arthropod as well as the vector present in it or an intermediate host is called as arbovirus.
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