Question

Where do viruses multiply?

Answer 1

Virus

1. An infectious agent known as a virus can only multiply inside of its host organism.
2. Various living things, including bacteria, plants, and animals, are resistant to virus infection.
3. Viruses have a simple structure and are so little that a microscope is required to see them.

Multiplication of viruses:

1. In living cells, viruses grow and multiply.
2. In addition to using the host cell's synthetic machinery, viruses inject their genetic material into the host cell.
3. The ribosomes of the host cell generate new proteins that make up the viral capsids along with the tRNAs of the host cell.
4. Since viruses lack the "machinery" to replicate themselves, it means that they reproduce within live cells.
5. The hundreds or thousands of new viral genomes are created by synthesizing new DNA (or RNA) using the host cell's RNA primase, polymerases, free nucleotides, etc.