Viruses lack cellular machinery until they enter a living host and multiply.

Mitochondria

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The correct option is A
Mitochondria

Viruses do not have a cellular machinery. They behave as non-living particles outside their host cell but start reproducing and multiplying once they enter their host.
Hence, they form the bridge between living and non-living.

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Viruses lack cellular machinery and hence do not show any characteristics of life until they enter a living body/host and use the host cell to multiply.

What is lacking in virus which makes it dependent on a living cell to multiply?

What is lacking in a virus which makes it dependent on a living cell to multiply ?

Question 9
Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because

(a) viruses make use of the host machinery
(b) viruses are on the border line of living and non-living
(c) viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own
(d) viruses have a protein coat

Statement 1: Viruses are dead when they are outside the host body.
Statement 2: Viruses do not have a cellular organisation.

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Viruses lack cellular machinery until they enter a living host and multiply.

The correct option is A Mitochondria Viruses do not have a cellular machinery. They behave as non-living particles outside their host cell but start reproducing and multiplying once they enter their host. Hence, they form the bridge between living and non-living.

The correct option is A
Mitochondria

Viruses do not have a cellular machinery. They behave as non-living particles outside their host cell but start reproducing and multiplying once they enter their host.
Hence, they form the bridge between living and non-living.