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Scientists claim that viruses are not living. Which evidence supports the classification of viruses as nonliving?

Viruses are unable to change or evolve over time.

Viruses must use their host’s cellular machinery in order to reproduce.

Viruses cause many different types of diseases.

Viruses lack genetic material that can be passed to future generations.

The evidence that viruses use their host’s cellular machinery in order to reproduce put viruses in non living category. Thus option B is correct.

What are viruses?

Viruses are microscopic infectious agents that contain genetic material, either DNA or RNA, and must invade a host in order to multiply.

Living things reproduce. Cells generally reproduce by replicating their DNA. Unlike cells, viruses do not have the tools to replicate their DNA.

But they have found other ways to create new viruses. This is done by introducing viral genetic material into the host cell.

Many scientists claim that although viruses can use other cells to reproduce, viruses are still not considered alive under this category. This is because the virus does not have the tools to replicate its genetic material on its own.

Therefore, scientists consider virus as non living because they do not have their own machinery to replicate their genetic material. Thus. option B is correct

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