Question

Why virus do not survive in environment

Answer 1

Dear student.

Virus does not possess nuclei, organelles, or cytoplasm that can regulate the process of metabolism. As a result of which they do not survive in the environment.

• A virus consists of a strand of DNA or RNA covered by a protein coat.
• This presence of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) suggests that viruses are alive.
• In addition, they can also respond to their environment (inside the host cell) in a limited manner means, while living inside the host they respond to the host cell where they live.

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