Question

Write an argumentative essay - Virus: Dead or Alive?

Answer 1

Viruses are said to be borderline between living and non-living. They become active in host cell i.e., a virus derives the required things from the host cell, stays in its body and reproduces. When they are outside an organism, they are said to be dead and won't reproduce.

Answer 2

The viruses have characteristics similar to living organism and non living organisms.

Explanation:

• the virus are in animate object outside the body of the host. They are not capable of locomotion.

• The virus also has the capacity to have no metabolic capacity .However inside the body of the host their capable of reproducing which is a characteristics of living organism. Also it can derive nutrition from the host. In addition to this it can also show and multiply the nucleic acid which is present in the organism

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