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Viruses: Living or Nonliving Debate by Kyrie Ocampo is a document available to read on EtoBox.

While viruses share some characteristics with living things like the ability to evolve over time, they lack key attributes that define life such as the ability to replicate their own genetic material, generate their own energy, and react autonomously to their environment. Viruses are non-living entities that can only multiply by hijacking the cellular machinery of living host cells. They are completely dependent on hosts for replication and metabolism and are unable to function independently outside of a ce

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Kyrie Ocampo

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