Why are viruses not considered to be organisms and not described as being alive? 1) virions are unable to reproduce by themselves. 2) virions are not able to metabolize by themselves. 3) virions are not able to synthesize dna by themselves. 4) virions are not able to assemble spontaneously?

My question says on my assignment. read the following scenarios and decide which of the properties of life are being described. the first one is. katherine stopped on the way to school to grab some donuts. 2. because a dog cannot sweat, it has to pant in order to stay cool. 3. an elephant trun had no bone but 4,000 muscles. i have no idea what i am supposed to anwer. i can't find the answer in my notes or book that i can understand anyway

The dna in a cell’s nucleus encodes proteins that are eventually targeted to every membrane and compartment in the cell, as well as proteins that are targeted for secretion from the cell. for example, consider these two proteins: phosphofructokinase (pfk) is an enzyme that functions in the cytoplasm during glycolysis. insulin, a protein that regulates blood sugar levels, is secreted from specialized pancreatic cells. assume that you can track the cellular locations of these two proteins from the time that translation is complete until the proteins reach their final destinations. for each protein, identify its targeting pathway: the sequence of cellular locations in which the protein is found from when translation is complete until it reaches its final (functional) destination. (note that if an organelle is listed in a pathway, the location implied is inside the organelle, not in the membrane that surrounds the organelle.)

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