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do viruses belongs to one of the domains from life
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Nope. They are not considered to be alive..
This is debatable as some scientists do consider them as nonliving and other living.
As of now the answer is no. Viruses cannot survive on their own because of the absence of metabolic machinery. They are non-living entities outside a cell but become living when inside a cell and they are considered living when inside a cell because they come to possess one of the essential criteria for defining life ie reproduction. So when inside a living cell viruses multiply rapidly and thus are considered living but outside a living cell they cannot multiply or reproduce.
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