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WHAT IS A VIRUS?
A virus is a living organism smaller than a bacteria. It needs a living cell to live, grow and reproduce. The virus uses living cells as hosts.

(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

The concept of a virus as an organism challenges the way we define life:

• viruses do not respire,
• nor do they display irritability;
• they do not move
• and nor do they grow,
• however, they do most certainly reproduce, and may adapt to new hosts.