Question

. Write the characteristics of viruses.
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Answer 1

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They can mutate.

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. ...

The vast majority of viruses possess either DNA or RNA but not both.

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Answer 2

Answer:

*GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS-

• Viruses are metabolically inert meaning that they cannot reproduce or replicate themselves.
• Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites meaning that they cannot reproduce outside their host cell, which means that the parasite's reproduction is entirely reliant on intracellular resources.
• Viruses cannot make proteins or energy independent on a host cell.
• Viruses can multiply inside the living cells by using host cell machinery.
• Viruses have an inner core of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat called an envelope. The envelope covers the capsid (protein coat)

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