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An infectious particle remains inert outside a living cell but produces new particles after entering a suitable host. Which explanation best accounts for this behaviour?

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Explanation

The particle is a virus. Viruses are inert outside their specific host cells but take over host-cell machinery after infection to produce additional virus particles.

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