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  • 01-01-2017
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Are viruses considered nonliving because they're are not made of protein

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  • 01-01-2017
No. Firstly, viruses do contain protein capsids, in which DNA or RNA is contained.


To answer your question, viruses are considered non-living, because the only characteristic they exhibit, usual to the living organism, is multiplication. And that's about it. They cannot breathe, eat and so on. 
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