- Briefly describe why viruses are said to exist as populations of sequences, and not single sequences. What is the technical term for this concept?
- Are viruses alive?
- Explain four characteristics you could identify to distinguish living organisms from viruses since they are not considered to be living organisms.
- True or false? Viruses can reproduce by themselves, and they do not need a host cell to multiply.
- Are viruses alive? Explain.
- Humans are more likely to be infected by viruses after the virus has a chance to multiply outside the body on surfaces touched by infected people. 1. True 2. False
- Viruses a. can be free-living or parasitic. b. belong to the domain Archaea. c. can function and reproduce only inside a host cell. d. all of the above are correct