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harkovskaia [24]
3 years ago
5

Write a paragraph explaining why viruses are not considered to be alive, but they are still studied in biology.

Biology
2 answers:
sukhopar [10]3 years ago
8 0
A virus is something that is airborne or transmitted kind of like an STD. See the virus inside the body is not necessarily something that will kill you but it still hurts stuff in the body. Blood cells are affected by the virus because it can injure the cell same with say the heart.

there ya go thats all i could come up with
Stella [2.4K]3 years ago
5 0
Virusis are in computers and you get them by watching inapropriat stuff
but if you talking about the virus in biology they are not considered alive because they are single celled corganism with out any functioning organes

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