Question

What are the living properties of viruses?

Answer 1

Viruses

1. A virus is a microscopic infectious agent that can only replicate inside living cells.
2. All living organisms, including bacteria and archaea, as well as mammals, plants, and microbes, are infected by viruses.
3. Viruses are contagious agents that can either be living things or inanimate objects.
4. Viruses are small infectious agents that require living cells to reproduce.
5. To survive and procreate, they may need an animal, plant, or bacterial host.
6. The host's protein synthesis machinery is utilized in this process.
7. At the gene level, they are ideal obligate parasites.
8. Viral infections are therefore considered a form of molecular parasitism.