Question

List some properties of viruses.

Answer 1

Properties of viruses

1. Because these pathogenic agents are smaller than bacteria, they can pass through bacterial filters.
2. It connects the living and the non-living.
3. Viruses do not grow, respire, or metabolize; instead, they reproduce.
4. These are non-cytoplasmic, acellular agents. As a result, they are virus particles rather than virus cells.
5. They are deficient in both RNA and DNA. Viruses are classified as either DNA viruses or RNA viruses based on whether they contain DNA or RNA.
6. It is made up of nucleic acid enclosed in a capsid-protein envelope.
7. Only among proper live cells can it grow.
8. Can be passed on from sickness to healthy things.
9. These are obligatory parasites that can only reproduce in living host cells.
10. These are host-specific in that they infect only a single species and definite host cells.