what is the means of viruses lie on the borderline, seperating the living from the non - living organisms from the non - living things . They are considered neither living nor non - living and thus are a cellular.

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it means viruses do not have genetic material of their own so they are considered as non living but when they enter in the body of living organisms they start to replicate their genetic material using the host cell cellular machinery, so inside the body of host organism they become living .

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Assertion [A] Viruses are considered to be at the borderline of living and non-living things.

Reason [R] Viruses cannot survive outside the host organism.

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