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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.

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it is that virus which is in the host living cell and parasitic to all living organisms

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