Question

Is the virus prokaryotic or eukaryotic?

Answer 1

Virus:

1. Viruses are infectious microbes that infect any living host organisms.
2. Viruses contain only nucleic acids in the form of DNA or RNA but lack other cellular organelles.
3. They cannot conduct their own metabolism and reproduce but need a host to conduct their processes.
4. Prokaryotic cells lack membrane-bound organelles and the genetic material is present in a specialized region called the nucleoid.
5. Eukaryotic cells contain a nucleus and cellular organelles that conduct the cell's metabolic processes.
6. Thus viruses can neither be categorized as prokaryotic nor eukaryotic as they are not made up of cells.