viruses use the host cell cytoplasmic space as their "factories" and their enzymes and other macromolecules...

viruses use the host cell cytoplasmic space as their "factories" and their enzymes and other macromolecules as their "tools." does that make them more sophisticated or less sophisticated than cells? Justify your answer

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viruses are considered as obligate parasites that means they cannot live without host and also they are host specific like bacteriophages,phytophages,infects animals,fungi etc.

after attacking host cells the replication process of virus is complicated and systamatic phenomenon into different steps.They never reproduce by divisions like binary fission,mitosis etc.they are replicated by a process in which all components are synthesised seperately and assembled like a machine

--Technically speaking they differ from normal cells in reproduction process by releasing thousands of viral particles from a single virus at the end of replication process(exponential manner)

--they just utilize host enzymes for eg HIV virus by usin reverse transcriptase enzyme converts RNA into DNA and incorporates genome into host cell and begins replication process in this aspect also they differ from normal cells

Even though they have above properties they are not having independent control mechanisms like respiration ,glycolysis ,metobolisms that are having in normal cells.So in some aspects they are more sophisticated than normal cells but not all things.

gladiator answered 2 years ago

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