Question

Virus are regarded as intermediat between non living and living organism . Justify the statement

Answer 1

Dear student,

Viruses are non-living when they are outside the host cell as they don't have any cellular machinery of their own. But when they are present inside the body of a host, they are living. They take over the host cell machinery to replicate themselves, killing the host. That's why they are regarded as intermediate between living and non-living organism.

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