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Virus lack metabolic pathways or any other life activity. This is the reason virus is known as particles and not as life form. they require their host for the replication and dependent of host machinery.
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How to Describe the process of cell metabolism in skin?
can you explain skin cell's metabolism
What provides energy for an virus?
A virus does not have a metabolism. To reproduce, a virus takes control of a living cell, forcing the cell to make copies of the virus. All energy is provided by the cell.
How viruses differ from living cell?
A virus is an inert chemical, with no metabolic activity, when it is not inside a cell. It cannot function on its own. Whereas with a living cell you always have a metabolism, even if the cell is part of a parasitic organism.
Cell in which a virus multiplies it self?
A virus replicates inside a host cell. For example 'Bacteriophase'
What must reproduce inside a virus?
Nothing reproduces inside a virus. It has to latch on the a host cell and insert its' DNA or RNA and then make the host cell reproduce virus particles.
How do you describe an active virus?
The virus attaches to the host cell, it takes over the functions of the host cell, and it eventually destroys it. If there was no host cell, the virus would die.
Does a virus get energy by reacting chemicals with oxygen?
No, a virus has no metabolism whatsoever. It relies entirely on tricking the host cell to do its work; while outside a cell, the virus doesn't move, eat, or anything.
What does not describe an active virus?
it attaches to the host cell
Can a virus release and use energy?
Virus particles have no metabolism and does not use energy. However, some viruses have kinetic energy stored in the high pressure inside them, this energy is released when they squirt their genome into the host cell. When they hijack the cell to make more viruses the cell will use energy to produce new viruses.
In a tablar form why virus either be a non-living and living things?
outside a living host cell , a virus is found to be inactive , devoid of its metabolic activities . but inside a living cell it actively carries out all its metabolism . so sometimes it is living and some other times non living
A virus needs a _____________ to reproduce?
There is no other living thing that requires a virus in order to reproduce.
Why is the cell invaded by the virus called a host cell?
A cell invaded by a virus is known as the 'host cell', as it 'hosted' the virus with shelter and food.
