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vitfil [10]
3 years ago
12

Describe how viruses and prions can alter cell functions

Biology
1 answer:
Alecsey [184]3 years ago
3 0
Since viruses are nonliving, they will need a host in order to take over and spread. Thus, viruses need help in order to reproduce. However on the other hand, Prions are also NON-living but they do not reproduce, they are protein that are not folded properly and continue to create those badly folded proteins to alter the cell.
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