Obligate intracellular parasites is the correct term. They have no biological proccesses aside from
" reproduction", which only happens when they hijack the cell's infrastructure to make more copies of it, destroying it in the process. That's why to this day there has been quite the debate around the classification of viruses as a lifeform
Obligate intracellular parasites is the correct term. They have no biological proccesses aside from " reproduction", which only happens when they hijack the cell's infrastructure to make more copies of it, destroying it in the process. That's why to this day there has been quite the debate around the classification of viruses as a lifeform
Viruses are also thought to be the cause of many cancers.
I believe parasites are the cause.