Question

Virus? Living or not? If we use the image as an indicator, we might say living because

Answer 1

Answer:

There is a hypothesis that viruses are alive because they have genetic material inside them, however there are scientists who disagree because viruses need a host cell to replicate their genetic material.  Viruses have internal DNA or RNA surrounded by a structure called capsid.

Because they fully depend on the metabolism of a cell for replication, they are considered non-living.

Answer 2

It contains a nucleic acid.