Answer:
Just as the chloroplasts in plants act as sugar factories for the supply of ordered molecules to the plant, the mitochondria in animals and plants act to produce the ordered ATP molecules as the energy supply for the processes of life. A typical animal cell will have on the order of 1000 to 2000 mitochondria.
Explanation:
Viruses are not considered living because they cannot survive without a host organism, and they do not exhibit the characteristics of life.
