For each of the following, note whether the component can be found in a virus, a cell, or both.
c. ribosome

Question

For each of the following, note whether the component can be found in a virus, a cell, or both.

c. ribosome

Accepted Answer

All right. Hello everyone. So this question is asking us which of the following is a component of a cell but not found in viruses. Option A is DNA B is protein C are ribosomes and option D is RN A. So before we go ahead and talk about the correct answer, let's recall a few things about viruses. First of all, it's important to recognize that a virus is noncellular, which means that the structure of a virus is much more simple than a cell. Now, there are three main components of a virus's structure to understand the first of which is genetic material, which could be DNA or RNA depending on the virus itself. In any case, though, that genetic material is going to be enclosed inside of a protein shell known as a capsule. And sometimes viruses can be known to have a lipid membrane. However, this is not always the case. So viruses will always have a genetic material and a capsule, but only some viruses have a lipid membrane. So that's important to keep in mind. So here of our answer choices, we can eliminate option A DNA and option DRN A because as mentioned before DNA and RN A are not unique to cells. Viruses can have either as their genetic material. So now we're, we're between option B protein and option C ribosomes. Well, one important distinction to remember is that viruses are not cells. And so what that means is that they don't have organelles like ribosomes. This is precisely why viruses hijack host cells in the first place. Right. In the case of ribosomes, ribosomes are involved in prot protein synthesis of cells. They're found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells because a virus doesn't have ribosomes of its own. They have to infect a host cell and use its ribosomes to synthesize proteins for the virus itself. So I'm realizing that I accidentally crossed out ribosomes when that's actually the correct answer. Right. Ribosomes are found in cells but not viruses. So this means that option B protein has to be incorrect. And it is because both cells and viruses are known to contain protein. So there you have it, our answer is going to be option c because only ribosomes are unique to cells. And so with that being said, thank you so very much for watching. And I hope you found this helpful.

For each of the following, note whether the component can be found in a virus, a cell, or both.
c. ribosome

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For each of the following, note whether the component can be found in a virus, a cell, or both.c. ribosome

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Cellular Components

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For each of the following, note whether the component can be found in a virus, a cell, or both.
c. ribosome