NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Viruses cannot reproduce outside a living cell because they lack the cellular organisation and independent machinery which is required for the reproduction and other metabolic activities. They can only multiply inside the living cell of host by using host’s cellular machinery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Virus is an obligate parasite. It is inert oustide the host cell. It does not divide or reproduce like other organisms, instead it multiplies by using the host machinery. Q.

Detailed explanation-3: -Viruses cannot replicate on their own, but rather depend on their host cell’s protein synthesis pathways to reproduce. This typically occurs by the virus inserting its genetic material in host cells, co-opting the proteins to create viral replicates, until the cell bursts from the high volume of new viral particles.