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.
Some of the differences are listed below:-. Bacteria. Virus. Fungi. Structure. Most bacteria consist of a ring of DNA surrounded by a cellular machinery, contained within a fatty membrane. They consist of little more than a small piece of genetic material surrounded by a thin protein coating.ostly are harmful. Many fungi are beneficial. Antibiotics. Kill bacteria. Cannot kill viruses. Do not effect. Diseases Caused. Cholera, tuberculosis, lyme disease, pertussus, salmonella, staph infections, strep throat, leprosy, tetanus, diptheria, E.coli, flesh eating (necrotizing fascitis) rickets, etc.