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Lesson: Chapter 8 — Characteristics of Living Organisms

Viruses 2 of 5

Question 2

What is a virus made of?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A nucleic acid with a protein coat around it. The nucleic acid part can be DNA or RNA.

It is precisely the absence of a plasma membrane, cytoplasm and organelles that keeps viruses from counting as cells. Chlorophyll and mitochondria are organelles — a virus has none.

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