Are viruses a class of biological species? What are the types of biological viruses

Updated on science 2024-07-07
12 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Metabolism is the criterion for judging whether something is a living thing (a living organism), so this is used to judge whether a virus is a living thing. Although we continue to debate whether viruses are alive or not, from the perspective of most people, viruses are living things, they have life, but viruses have their own particularities.

    Viruses can complete their metabolism, but they must use living cells, which means that viruses cannot complete their metabolism independently. In other words, viruses can be metabolized, and viruses are living things. Metabolism is about the whole life process, and the absence of a virus in the cell is just a stage of it.

    So it can't be said that it's not a living thing!

    While this question is up for debate, viruses have been relegated to the biological kingdom. I really don't know which school the great god on the first floor attends majoring in biology.

    Therefore, just like the definition of a virus, a virus is a class of microorganisms that do not have a cellular structure and have life characteristics such as genetics and replication.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Yes, and in the microbial classification.

    Viruses: protein shells, internal genetic material; Self-replication and reproduction.

    Virus representative species: HIV, influenza virus.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Yes, a prokaryotic organism.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Viruses are not living organisms.

    I'm a biology major.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    When the sudden new crown pneumonia virus ruthlessly attacked us, prevention and control isolation is our first choice now. I was tasked with teaching microbiology. The content covers viruses.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Viruses are not only divided into plant viruses, animal viruses and bacterial viruses. Structurally, it is also divided into: single-stranded RNA virus, double-stranded RNA virus, single-stranded DNA virus and double-stranded DNA virus.

    The life process of the virus is roughly divided into five steps: adsorption, injection (genetic material), synthesis (reverse transcription and integration into the host cell DNA), assembly (use of host cell transcription RNA, translation protein reassembly), and release.

    Because viruses will shorten the distance between cells, it is easy for cells to fuse to form multinucleated cells, and then lyse.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Viruses are living things.

    A virus is a small, simple non-cellular organism that contains only one nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) and must parasitize and replicate in living cells.

    A virus is a non-cellular life form, it is composed of a long nucleic acid chain and a protein coat, and the virus has no metabolic mechanism of its own, no enzyme system. As a result, when the virus leaves the host cell, it becomes a chemical substance that has no life activity and cannot reproduce on its own. Once in the host cell, it can use the matter and energy in the cell, as well as the ability to replicate, transcribe, and translate, to produce a new generation of viruses like it based on the genetic information contained in its own nucleic acids.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Viruses are a class of microorganisms that do not have a cellular structure and have life characteristics such as genetics and replication.

    Virus, like all living things, has heredity, mutation, evolution, is a very small size, extremely simple structure of life form, virus has a high degree of parasitism, completely dependent on the host cell's energy and metabolic system, access to the material and energy required for life activities, leaving the host cell, it is just a large chemical molecule, stop moving, can be made into protein crystallization, for a non-living body, encounter the host cell it will be adsorbed, enter, copy, assemble, The virus is a primitive life form between living and non-living organisms because it releases progeny viruses and shows typical characteristics of living organisms.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Yes! Because it can multiply, it can be genetically mutated (in fact, the definition of a virus as a living organism is still controversial, but these two should indicate that the virus has life characteristics).

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    It is a living thing because it can reproduce, but it does not have cells.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Animal viruses (harmful to animals), Plant viruses (harmful to plants), Bacteriophages (harmful to bacteria)!

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Viruses are divided into: animal viruses, plant viruses and bacterial viruses.

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