Why can't viruses reproduce outside the host organism?

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Viruses cannot reproduce outside the host because these organisms do not have the metabolic machinery of their own. Viruses do not have cytoplasm and enzymes required for reproduction. In this regard viruses must approach their respective host for reproductive components.

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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.

Viruses are dead when it is outside a host cell. They are alive only inside a host cell.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about viruses?

i. Viruses are smaller than the bacteria

ii. Viruses are active outside the host cell

iii. Viruses use the host cell to reproduce

iv. Viruses do not contain DNA or RNA

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