THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
VIRUSES AND PRIONS
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They do not require the use of a hosts replication machinery, but can use it
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They are unable to use a hosts replication machinery to reproduce
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They have to use a hosts replication machinery to reproduce
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They usually use a hosts replication machinery, but don’t need to.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Obligate intracellular parasites cannot reproduce outside their host cell, meaning that the parasite’s reproduction is entirely reliant on intracellular resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -Viruses are small and relatively simple microbes that cannot grow outside of living cells, that is, they are obligate intracellular parasites (Figure 1).
Detailed explanation-3: -Parasites that are dependent on the host for completing their life cycle are called obligate parasites; they cannot survive independently without the host, hence they do not have their own metabolic mechanism and cannot reproduce without the presence of host machinery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Viruses infect a cell, take the machinery of the cell and replicate. Hence, they are intracellular obligatory parasites.
Detailed explanation-5: -Viruses are obligate parasites. They cannot reproduce outside living cells. Therefore, they are considered obligate intracellular parasites. They infect a host cell to use its genetic machinery to produce energy, synthesize proteins, and replicate.