Asked by Chuck Bass
Which of the following cellular processes can a virus perform?
DNA replication
DNA transcription
protein synthesis
A virus cannot perform any of these processes.
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A virus cannot perform any of these processes on its own.
Viruses lack the cellular machinery (ribosomes, many enzymes, metabolic systems) needed for DNA replication, transcription and protein synthesis, so they must hijack a host cell’s systems to carry out those functions. (Some viruses do encode or carry certain enzymes—e.g. viral polymerases or reverse transcriptase—which help replication/transcription inside a host cell—but they still cannot carry out these processes independently.)
Viruses lack the cellular machinery (ribosomes, many enzymes, metabolic systems) needed for DNA replication, transcription and protein synthesis, so they must hijack a host cell’s systems to carry out those functions. (Some viruses do encode or carry certain enzymes—e.g. viral polymerases or reverse transcriptase—which help replication/transcription inside a host cell—but they still cannot carry out these processes independently.)
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