Outside of Living Cells, Viruses Are

Question

Outside of living cells, viruses are
A) scavenging glucose.
B) gaining ATP from the mitochondria.
C) metabolically inert.
D) using cilia to move to the next host.
E) replicating by binary fission.

Accepted Answer

Viruses are not living organisms and therefore do not carry out metabolic processes such as scavenging for nutrients or ATP, using cilia, or replicating by binary fission. They are simply genetic material enclosed in a protein coat and are metabolically inert outside of host cells.