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Properties of viruses :

Viruses lack organelles and depend on living cells. One becomes several hundred in one cell during one replication cycle of several hours.

Viruses cause infectious disease.

Virulent viruses cause lesions, cell necrosis, immune-complex disease, tumours - think of one example of each and an avirulent virus.