Question

What are the 3 examples of viruses?

Answer 1

Viruses:

1. They are the non-cellular, microscopic infectious agents that are capable of replicating inside a host cell.
2. They cannot be considered as a living or non-living organism.
3. They are smaller in its size (mostly between 20-200 nm).
4. They generally lack a cell wall but are surrounded by a protective protein coating known as the capsid.
5. The genetic material is either RNA or DNA.
6. For example: Rhinovirus, tobacco mosaic virus, herpes virus.