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What piece of evidence supports the viral model presented in Viewpoint #2 that viruses are non-living?

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b. viruses do not undergo mitosis

Step-by-step explanation:

One characteristics of non-living things is their ability to reproduce. Viruses on their own lack this ability to reproduce their kind. Mitosis is a form of reproduction where one cell divides to form two daughter cells. Viruses do not undergo mitosis.

Viruses are just an assembly of biochemical particles that need to gain entrance into a living cell to be able to multiply.

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