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Which of the 8 characteristics prove that a virus is or is not considered living?

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Nonliving characteristics include the fact that they are not cells, have no cytoplasm or cellular organelles, and carry out no metabolism on their own and therefore must replicate using the host cell's metabolic machinery.

Step-by-step explanation:

Viruses lack membranes. Hence, they do not show characteristics of life until they enter a living cell. On entering the living cell they use the cell machinery to multiply.

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