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the viruses are non cellular organisms that are charaterised by having an inert crystalline structure outside the living cell explain

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This statement means that viruses are non living and do not posses cellular apparatus. They are inactive solid structure (inert crystalline structures) outside the cell but when they enter inside the cell, they become active and take over the machinery of the cell to replicate.

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