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Unit-4

4.2 Viruses
List the seven
characteristics of
living things?
What comes to
mind when you think
of a virus?
What is a virus
• Viruses are very small.
• You need to use a special kind of microscope called an
electron microscope.
1. The blue-green outer layer is a coat made of protein.
2. There are a little pegs on the outside of this coat.
3. The orange part inside contains a substance called
RNA.
• Made of little threads that contain a set of coded
instructions for making more viruses.
How viruses replicate?
Example: H3N2 “Influenza”
• Invade (get inside) cells of birds, humans and other mammals.

1. Get into your body by going up your nose when you breath in.
2. Stick onto one of your cells by the help of the little pegs.
3. Then get inside the cell.
4. Each virus bursts open.
5. The virus forces the cell to copy the instructions on its RNA, and make
many new viruses.
6. This kills the cell, The new viruses burst out of the dying cell, to infect
more cells.
Are viruses living or non-living?
• Are not made of cells.
• Viruses cannot do anything at all on their own.
• They do not respire, feed, excrete or grow.
• They are not sensitive and cannot move.
• Have to get inside a living cell before they can make
copies of themselves.
Thanks

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