Why can viruses only live inside a cell?

Viruses are extracellular agents that can only reproduce with the help of living cells.
That is, they can only reproduce in living cells.
Viruses in their pure form are crystals that do not have living properties (they do not multiply, do not have metabolism, etc.).



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