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> I think the biggest difference is that bacteria can react to a treatment, while viruses don't have the capacity to react.

Bacteria also swap genes between themselves [0], whereas two viral particles sitting on the same Petri dish are too inert/simple for that. That represents an additional way for adaptive tricks to spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer



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