How are viruses known?

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(C) Viruses are considered to be at the border of living and non-living things. They are non-cellular organisms that are characterized by having an in

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Connecting link between living and non-living organisms

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(C) Viruses are considered to be at the border of living and non-living things. They are non-cellular organisms that are characterized by having an inert crystalline structure outside the living cell. However,once they infect a host cell,they take over the machinery of the host cell to replicate themselves. Therefore,they are known as the connecting link between living and non-living organisms.

Column-$I$	Column-$II$
$(A)$ Tobacco Mosaic Virus	$(p)$ Human
$(B)$ Potato Spindle Tuber Disease	$(q)$ Bacterial Virus
$(C)$ Alzheimer's Disease	$(r)$ Plant Virus
$(D)$ Bacteriophage	$(s)$ Tobacco
$(E)$ Polio Virus	$(t)$ Potato
	$(u)$ Animal Virus

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