What are two ways viruses & bacteria are different?

Question

Besides that viruses are smaller than bacteria.

Answer 1

The differences between viruses and bacteria are numerous. Viruses are the smallest and simplest life form known. They are 10 to 100 times smaller than bacteria. The biggest difference between viruses and bacteria is that viruses must have a living host - like a plant or animal - to multiply, while most bacteria can grow on non-living surfaces.

Also, unlike bacteria, which attack the body like soldiers mounting a pitched battle, viruses are guerilla fighters. They don't attack so much as infiltrate. They literally invade human cells and turn the cell's genetic material from its normal function to producing the virus itself.

In addition, bacteria carry all the machinery needed for their growth and multiplication, while viruses carry mainly information - for example, DNA or RNA, packaged in a protein and/or membranous coat. Viruses harness the host cell's machinery to reproduce. In a sense, viruses are not truly "living," but are essentially information (DNA or RNA) that float around until they encounter a suitable living host.

Answer 2

(Each virus: is made up of two elementary components. The first is a strand of genetic material, either deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA). Unlike living cells, viruses will have either DNA or RNA, but not both. The genetic material is a blueprint for determining the structure and behavior of a cell. In a virus, a protein coat called a "capsid" surrounds the nucleic acid. This coat serves to protect the nucleic acid and aid in its transmission between host cells. The capsid is made of many small protein particles called "capsomeres," and can be formed in three general shapes – helical, icosahedral (a 20-sided figure with equilateral triangles on each side), and complex. Some of the more advanced viruses have a third structure that surrounds the capsid. This is called the "envelope" and is composed of a bilipid layer, like the membrane on a cell, and glycoproteins, which are protein and carbohydrate compounds. The envelope serves to disguise the virus to look like a 'real' cell, protecting it from appearing as a foreign substance to the immune system of the host. The structure of a virus is closely related to its mode of reproduction) bacteria :Most bacteria have an outer, rigid cell wall. This provides shape and support. Lining the inside of the cell wall is a plasma membrane. This is like the membrane found around all living cells that provides both a boundary for the contents of the cell and a barrier to substances entering and leaving. The content inside the cell is called "cytoplasm." Suspended in the cytoplasm are ribosomes (for protein synthesis), the nucleoid (concentrated genetic material), and plasmids (small, circular pieces of DNA, some of which carry genes that control resistance to various drugs). All living cells have ribosomes, but those of bacteria are smaller than those found in any other cell. Some antibacterial medicines have been made that attack the ribosomes of a bacterium, leaving it unable to produce proteins, and therefore killing it. Because the ribosomes are different, the cells of the host are left unharmed by the antibiotic. Other antibiotics target certain portions of the cell wall. Some bacteria have long, whip-like structures called "flagella" that they use for movement. one more thing bucteria is alive but virus is not.

Answer 3

Bacteria are living organism. Bacteria toxins are usually what kills surrounding cells and the like. Viruses are only DNA or RNA strands encased in a protein. Viruses can only link with a certain type of cell but when they do the viruses inserts its DNA into the host cell so that the host cell starts producing more virus strands until the cell burst.

Answer 4

Bacterias and viruses can get you ill. Viruses at the instantaneous are not residing organisms because they could't carry out respiration and may't get their personal food devoid of a bunch cellular. Bacterias can get their personal food by technique of utilising photosynthesis (a number of them). Viruses are also prokaryotic organisms. Bacterias are eukaryotic organisms.. Sorry if i do not have yet another answer why bacterias and viruses are alike. I forgot. =) wish this helps. =)

Answer 5

1. Both may get inside us or another organism, but only viruses will get inside our cells to reproduce themselves.

2. Bacteria but not viruses have the molecular means to make proteins.

Answer 6

Well, for one thing, viruses are not considered "alive" because they cannot perform cellular functions on their own (not until they inject themselves into the bacteria), and bacteria are considered alive.
So as a result, viruses do not contain any of the organelles needed to perform cellular functions.

Answer 7

viruses contain RNA and DNA as genetic material
bacterial cell has DNA as genetic material.

viruses posses living and non living characters
bacteria are living organisms.

Answer 8

viruses can corrupt computers...bacteria cant...