All Viruses Areـــــــــــــــــــــ

Question

All viruses areـــــــــــــــــــــ .
A)parasitic
B)saprophytic
C)enveloped
D)bacteriophages

Accepted Answer

All viruses are considered parasitic because they require a host cell to replicate and carry out their metabolic processes. They cannot survive or reproduce on their own and rely on hijacking the metabolic machinery of their host cell. Bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms with saprophytic lifestyles feed on decaying organic matter and do not infect host cells. Enveloped viruses have a lipid bilayer that surrounds their capsid, while bacteriophages specifically infect bacteria and not eukaryotic cells.