Day: October 19, 2021

A virus is a tiny submicroscopic parasitic agent which replicates inside an organism’s living cells. Viruses affect all living things, from plants and animals toacteria, including Archaea and eukaryotic bacteria. Most viruses are genetic in nature; this means that, unlike bacteria and other prokaryotes, a virus is coded by its genetic code as a single string of amino acids that can be repeated. Because a virus is not a living organism (as most viruses are proteins), its location inside an individual organism is highly specific. The location of the virus […]