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What does a virus need to make more viruses?
A virus needs a host cell to invade and hijack its cellular machinery to replicate and produce more viral particles. This process allows the virus to make copies of itself and spread to infect other cells in the host organism.
What does a virus ultimately do to the host cell?
Viruses hijack the host cell's machinery to replicate their own genetic material, produce new virus particles, and eventually cause the host cell to burst, releasing the new viruses to infect other cells. This process ultimately leads to cell death and can cause harm to the larger organism.
Viruses can reproduce only inside what?
Viruses can reproduce only inside living host cells. They rely on the host cell's machinery to replicate and produce more copies of the virus.
Do viruses attack healthy cells?
Yes, viruses can infect and attack healthy cells in the body to replicate and spread. This can lead to disease and a range of symptoms depending on the type of virus and the cells affected.
Why is it easier to make drugs that fight bacteria than viruses?
It is easier to make drugs that fight bacteria because bacteria are prokaryotic cells with distinct structures that can be targeted by antibiotics, whereas viruses are not fully living organisms and rely on host cells to replicate, making them harder to target without harming host cells. Additionally, bacteria have more varied metabolic pathways and cellular processes that can be targeted by drugs, while viruses have simpler structures and are harder to develop drugs against.
What are viruses hidden in?
Cells, they reproduce by invading a cell and using its functions to make more viruses, eventually killing a cell. That's why viruses are bad, and that where they "hide".
Are viruses a solid liquid or gas?
A virus is a solid but very tiny particle. It high jacks another cells to make more viruses.
Why do you classify viruses as obligatory intracellular parasite?
Viruses need living cells to produce more viruses. They are obliged to use living cells.
How does a viruses cause disease?
Put simply it infects your cells with its own form of DNA that cause you body to make more and thenthey infect more cells sorta
Are viruses more complex than human cells?
No.
What will happen if a cell bursts and realeses the virus that it was forced to make?
The cell dies and the viruses are dispersed and infect more cells.
What does Swine Flu H1N1 eat?
The swine flu, like the seasonal flu, is caused by a virus. Viruses don't eat. Viruses are not alive. They each are more like a sub-microscopic sack of chemicals that is able to stick to your individual cells and make you sick. The viruses make your body create copies of them to make more virus particles to stick to more of your cells. All materials needed to make copies, and all the work to make the copies, is provided by the cells of the infected person (or other animal), which have been invaded and hijacked by the virus, so they have no need to get nourishment even if they could.
List prokaryotic cells eukaryotic cells and viruses in order of increasing complexity?
Viruses, prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells. Viruses are the simplest, consisting of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat. Prokaryotic cells are more complex, with no membrane-bound organelles and a simpler structure than eukaryotic cells, which are the most complex with membrane-bound organelles and a nucleus.
Can viruses get into cells?
Yes, they need to do this so they can have a host to make duplicates of the virus. The cells act as a host providing the materials and work to create new viruses. See the related questions below about the Lytic cycle for more information on virus reproduction.
Do bacteria force living cell to make more bacteria?
No. Bacteria are not viruses and can not commander other cells in their replication,which is only simplistic fission.
Why do viruses depend in host cells?
Viruses are composed of protein and DNA. The DNA encodes the protein as well as the DNA for the virus. Viruses depend on host cells because they are incapable of reproducing themselves. They enter the host cell and the viral DNA is inserted into the host DNA. The virus then "hijacks" the host cells replication machinery to make more viral protein and viral DNA.
What does a virus need to make more viruses?
A virus needs a host cell to invade and hijack its cellular machinery to replicate and produce more viral particles. This process allows the virus to make copies of itself and spread to infect other cells in the host organism.
