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Lesson: Chapter 8 — Characteristics of Living Organisms

Viruses 3 of 5

Question 3

What is the only living characteristic a virus shows?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Reproduction. And even that only inside a living host cell — by breaking the host cell membrane, releasing its DNA or RNA, and multiplying inside that cell.

No metabolic activity whatever happens within a virus; with none of the organelles it would need, nutrition, respiration and excretion are all impossible.

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