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- Meaning of Virus
- Characteristics of Virus
- Virus As A Living (Animate ) Thing
- Virus as a Non-living (Inanimate) Thing
What is a Virus?
A virus is a microscopic (extremely small) organism which cannot be seen by an ordinary microscope but only through an electronic microscope.
It does not have a cell structure, it is just made up of a coiled strand of nucleic acid i.e. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) enclosed within a protein coat.
A virus is seen as both a living and non-living thing. When outside a living cell, it exists as a crystal and
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