Non Living Virus Research Paper

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A virus is considered non- living but shows two things of living, they are made up of protein and genetic material. Viruses are very small, they can be seen with a microscope, and invade living cells. Since viruses don’t consist of cells, they have to depend on a host cell to help them make copies of their selves. When a virus enters a cell it uses that cells ATP to replicate.
In order for viral replication to occur, the virus must first enter the cell and attach to it. Once it does this it releases its genetic material into the cell and then replication begins, where the virus makes copies of itself. After the replication process the cell that the virus is connected to becomes infected, damaged. Or dies off and the virus must then invade a