Select the Characteristic That Makes Viruses Different Than Bacteria.
They arent even a full cell. This complex molecule consists of sugars and amino acids. Bacteria Characteristics Read Biology Ck 12 Foundation Nonliving characteristics include the fact that they are not cells have no cytoplasm or cellular organelles and carry out no metabolism on their own and therefore must replicate using the host cells metabolic machinery. . Viruses can only live for a very short time outside. Viruses only grow and reproduce inside of the host cells they infect. Furthermore most virus have the capability to mutate. Unlike bacteria and eucaryotic parasites viruses have no metabolism of their own and no intrinsic ability to produce the proteins encoded by their DNA or RNA genomes. They need to use another cells structures to reproduce. The cell wall is so important that some antibiotics such as penicillin kill bacteria by preventing the cell wall from forming. Unlike bacteria viruses cant...
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