Question

Are viruses s living organisms?

Use scientific principles
and knowledge that you
have about the topic to
explain why your
evidence (data) supports
your claim.
In other words, explain
how your data proves
your point?
(paragraph format)

Answer 1

Viruses are yet not considered as living. They serve as the border between living and non living.

Step-by-step explanation:

• They are non cellular.
• They are inert crystalline structured outside a living cell (host cell).
• They can perform metabolic activities only inside a living cell.
• They are nucleoproteins covered with a layer of capsid and often infectious.
• They can be crystallized and will mostly consists of proteins. They have either RNA or DNA.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

actually virus are both living and non living organisms they are living when they are in a living cell and non living when they are on there own they are in-between the borders of living and non living things