Virus can not be termed as a living thing or organism. Viruses can not replicate themselves, they are dependent on its host. The only similarity is it contain genetic material such as DNA or RNA like living things which codes for its proteins.
There is no such thing. viruses are so very small that a living thing could not live inside one. But a virus inside a living thing could be called latent if it is not causing a disease or active if it is.
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Mostly No. A rhinovirus is a type of virus. A virus does not completely fit the accepted definition of a living entity.
Virus
Of all these things, the virus is the only non-living thing. Viruses are not living organisms. E.coli is a bacteria and living.
The flu virus is considered a non-living thing. It is a microscopic particle that requires a host cell to replicate and survive.
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A host.
No, chlorine is a chemical element, not a living thing or virus.
Yes, the host is living, whether it be a host for a virus, a worm, or a bacterium.
Smallest block that makes up a living thing is the cell, although some debate that virus, which is much smaller than a cell, is a living thing.
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