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When looking at the cellular organization of a virus, what do viruses LACK that living things HAVE?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Viruses are acellular — they lack cells. Specifically they do not have a cell membrane, cytoplasm, organelles (including ribosomes) or a nucleus. Because of this they cannot carry out independent metabolism or protein synthesis and cannot reproduce on their own (they must infect a host cell).