Eli5-If a virus isn’t technically alive, I would assume it doesn’t have instinct. Where does it get its instructions/drive to know to infect host cells and multiply?

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Eli5-If a virus isn’t technically alive, I would assume it doesn’t have instinct. Where does it get its instructions/drive to know to infect host cells and multiply?

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Answer 1

It doesn’t know anything?

It is proteins. And DNA.

It’s DNA, makes more proteins. Those proteins each get a copy of it’s DNA, then they get released.