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Which best explains why viruses do not have special structures or enzymes that allow them to make their own food?

Viruses can use energy of living cells that they infect.
Viruses can replicate inside a host that they infect.
Viruses can cause contagious illnesses in host cells.
Viruses integrate their RNA or DNA into infected cells.

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Answer:

Viruses can replicate inside a host that they infect. ... The epiglottis closes the air pathway so that food will not enter it.

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Answer:

B.) Viruses can replicate inside a host that they infect.

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