VIRUS:SOME IMPORTANT POINTS

                                  VIRUS:
1:VIRUS ARE NOT CELLS
2:THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENT REPLICATION
3:THE CANNOT SYNTHESIZE THEIR OWN ENERGY AND PROTEINS
4:THE ARE TOO SMALL TOO BE SEEN UNDER THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE
5:STUDY OF VIRUS IS KNOWN AS VIROLOGY
6:FIRST EVIDENCE ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF VIRUS CAME IN 1884 BY CHARLES CHAMBERLAND
 CHARACTERISTICS OF VIRUS:
VIRUS SHOW CHARACTERISTICS OF BOTH LIVING AND NON LIVING THINGS
LIVING CHARACTERISTICS:
1:THEY HAVE THEIR OWN GENETIC MATERIAL IN THE FORM OF DNA OR RNA THAT CAN UNDERGO MUTATION

2:THEY REPRODUCE USING THE METABOLIC MACHINERY OF THE HOST CELL
3:THEY ENTER LIVING ORGANISM AND CAUSE DISEASE
NON LIVING CHARACTERISTICS:
1:THEY DO NOT RESPIRE
2:THEY DON'T HAVE A CELLULAR STRUCTURE
3:THEY CAN BE CRYSTALLISED AND STORED IN THE BOTTLE
    SOME VIRAL DISEASES: DISEASES:AIDS,HEPATITIS,HERPES SIMPLEX,POLIOMYELITIS,COTTON LEAF CURL DISEASE ETC

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