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do viruses have metabolism

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no. Viruses are not alive they don’t have a metabolism, they’re nothing more than an infectious bag of genes which is able to put those genes into a cell and make the cell produce all the viral products to make more viruses. That’s all they do.

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