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The similarities between the computer viruses and biological viruses.

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The viruses are obligate organisms that show signs of life only inside a host. Outside the host they either die or do not show any sign of life. They invade the host cell to carry out their function like replication. A particular virus infects a particular host cell. The invaded host cell acts as machinery for the viruses. Depending upon the state of the virus, they can carry out lytic cycle or lysogenic cycle.   

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