This article is about the aqueous solution. For the gas, see hydrogen chloride. Hydrochloric acid is a corrosive, strong mineral acid with many industrial uses. A colorless, highly pungent solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl) in water, when it reacts with an organic base it forms a hydrochloride salt.
Bacteria are intercellular organisms (i.e. they live in-between cells); whereas viruses are intracellular organisms (they infiltrate the host cell and live inside the cell). They change the host cell's genetic material from its normal function to producing the virus itself.
1 By contrast, viruses generally carry information-for example, DNA or RNA, packaged in a protein and/or membranous coat. 2  They need the host cell's machinery to reproduce. 3  The legs of a virus attach onto the surface of the cell and then the genetic material contained inside the virus is injected into the cell. Bacteria are single-celled organisms that can live either inside or outside other cells. 2  They can survive without a cellular host. 3  Viruses, on the other hand, are only intracellular organisms, meaning that they infiltrate the host cell and live inside the cell.