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write 7 differences between cell and virus.​

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Hey there! Here are 7 differences between a cell and a virus:

  • A cell is a significant structural and functional unit of all living organisms. Instead, a virus is an infectious agent that is considered non-living.
  • The cell is a living component, unlike a virus that is a parasite.
  • Cells are present in a living form, on the other hand, the virus is present in both living and non-living
  • A virus doesn’t contain any kind of cytoplasm, cell wall, cell membrane, ribosome or mitochondrion, whereas a cell contains all of these (depending on what kind of cell it is). Many viruses do not even have a membrane, often formed of only a protein capsid containing the DNA or RNA based genome.
  • Cells can exist independently like bacteria or can be as a part of larger organisms like our own cells in the body. Viruses on the other hand are non-living infectious particles that are dependant on a living host to reproduce.
  • Cells reproduce through binary fission and mitosis or meiosis. When a virus replicates, it uses lytic fission to do it
  • Virus particles are slightly smaller than a cell.

Hope this helped. Explanations and examples are included within the points.

- profparis

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