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"Cell theory has two main parts: every living organism is composed of one or more cells, and all cells living today came from a preexisting cell. Does cell theory apply to viruses?"

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Viruses are exceptions to the cell theory.

Outside a living medium, virus is considered non living or a crystalline substance.

It is just a strand of DNA in a coat. It is unable to undergo metabolism

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