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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The best analogy I’ve heard is that it’s like a USB drive. Doesn’t really know what it’s doing but if you plug it in, the files just do their thing.

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