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Viruses, Viroids, and Prions Overview by Shivaveerakumar S. Chandrikimath is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Viruses, viroids, and prions are infectious agents. Viruses are small and obligate intracellular parasites that infect all life forms and contain DNA or RNA genomes. Viroids are plant pathogens composed solely of small circular RNA that replicate using host RNA polymerase. Prions are composed primarily of misfolded protein and cause neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals by inducing normal prion proteins to misfold. While viruses contain nucleic acids and protein coats, viroids contain only RNA an
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- Shivaveerakumar S. Chandrikimath
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