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Bacteria carry all the "machinery" (cell organelles) needed for their growth and multiplication.
Bacteria usually reproduce asexually. In case of sexual reproduction, certain plasmidsgenetic material can be passed between bacteria. But on the other hand, viruses carry mainly information - for example, DNA /// RNA, packaged in a protein and/or membranous coat.
Viruses harness the host cell's machinery to reproduce. Their legs attach onto the surface of the cell, then the genetic material contained inside the head of the virus is injected into the cell. This genetic material can either use the cell's machinery to produce its own proteins and/or virus bits, or it can be integrated into the cell's DNA/RNA and then translated later. When enough "baby" viruses are produced the cell bursts, releasing the new viral particles. In a sense, viruses are not truly "living," but are essentially information (DNA or RNA) that float around until they encounter a suitable living host.

Viruses are the simplest and tiniest of  microbes. -They can be as much as 10,000 x smaller than Bacteria.


Viral Poetry:

 When viruses come into contact with the host cells, they trigger the cells to engulf them and connect themselves so they can release their DNA into the cell. Once a host cell, viruses take over its machinery to reproduce. Once this occurs, the Virus then overrides the host cell's normal functions with their own set of instructions which shut down the production of the host's proteins and direct the cell to produce viral proteins to make new virus particles. Some viruses insert their genetic material into the host cell's DNA, where they begin directing the copying of their genes or simply lie asleep for years or a lifetime. Either way, the host cell does all the actual work, the viruses simply provide the instructions.


Some other fun Facts:
[x] Antibiotics can kill bacteria but not viruses.
[x] There are some useful bacteria but all viruses are harmful.
[x] Bacteria (larger)  Virus (smaller) :

Summary:
 

Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. They are typically a few micrometres long and have many shapes including curved rods, spheres, rods, and spirals.

Viruses (from the Latin noun virus, meaning toxin or poison) is a sub-microscopic particle (ranging in size from 20–300 nm) that can infect the cells of a biological organism.


A bacterium is a microbe (a microscopic single cell organism):
A Bacterium consists of a single cell. Also accurate///detailed: Bacteria are single-celled living prokaryotic organisms.


Prokaryotic: ic = Pertaining to. Pro = “before”, karyon = “nucleus”

Prokaryotes:

Prokaryotes were the first type of cell to evolve, and, still lack a membrane bound nucleus. Their genetic material is naked within the cytoplasm, ribosomes their only type of organelle.

Prokaryotes are most always single-celled, except when they exist in colonies. These ancestral cells, now represented by members of the domains Archaea and Eubacteria, reproduce by means of binary fission, duplicating their genetic material and then essentially splitting to form two daughter cells identical to the parent.

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