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Difference Between Enveloped and Nonenveloped Viruses
Enveloped viruses enter by membrane fusion, either from an internal compartment following an endocytic step, or at the cell surface. Non-enveloped vir...
Difference Between Virus and Viroids
Viruses (Virus particles or virions) are usually units consisting of nucleic acids and coat proteins called capsids. Viroids consist only of RNA, i.e....
Difference Between Plant Virus and Animal Virus
Animal Viruses. Animal viruses, unlike the viruses of plants and bacteria, do not have to penetrate a cell wall to gain access to the host cell. The v...
Difference Between DNA and RNA Viruses
DNA viruses like the poxvirus are packaged with their polymerase machinery so they can replicate in the host cytoplasm directly. RNA viruses infect ce...
What is the Difference Between Virus and Viroids
Viruses (Virus particles or virions) are usually units consisting of nucleic acids and coat proteins called capsids. Viroids consist only of RNA, i.e....
non pathogenic bacteria examples
Nonpathogenic: Incapable of causing disease. For example, nonpathogenic E. coli are E. coli bacteria that do not cause disease, but instead live natur...
classification of viruses
Viruses are classified into four groups based on shape: filamentous, isometric (or icosahedral), enveloped, and head and tail. Many viruses attach to ...
structure of viruses
The simplest virions consist of two basic components: nucleic acid (single- or double-stranded RNA or DNA) and a protein coat, the capsid, which funct...
facts about viruses
20 Things You Didn't Know About VirusesViruses are not alive: They do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are j...