Viruses: Living or Non-Living? — NEET Biology
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Once they infect a cell, they take over the machinery of the host cell to replicate themselves, killing the host. Would you call viruses living or non-living?
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Assertion (A): Viruses can replicate and produce new viral particles. Reason (R): Viruses take over the machinery of the host cell to replicate themselves after infection.
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