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.
viruses have no metabolism they are obligate parasite ( i.e. they can not reproduce without the use of a host cell) theres a ton more aswell. Bacteria are heterotrophic while viruses are autotrophic. Bacteria are living organisms; viruses are not. Bacteria have a membrane bound nucleus while viruses do not.