Virus, microscopic, simple infectious agent that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria. The nucleic acid and proteins of each class of. Virus, infectious agent of small size and simple composition that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria.
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Viruses can reproduce only within a host cell. After the virus incubates for. A disease or illness caused by a virus a viral disease
An extremely small particle that causes a disease and that spreads from one person or animal to another;
Like all viruses, phages are simple organisms that consist. Viruses possess unique infective properties and thus often cause. Among humans the virus is transmitted from an infected person through bodily secretions, usually droplets expelled by sneezing or coughing. The amount and arrangement of the proteins and nucleic acid of viruses determine their size and shape.
Although viruses were originally discovered and characterized on the basis of the diseases they cause, most viruses that infect bacteria, plants, and. Viruses that infect animals can jump from one species to another, causing a new, usually severe disease in the new host. Some examples include inoviridae, microviridae, rudiviridae, and tectiviridae. The parental virus (virion) gives rise to numerous progeny, usually genetically and structurally identical to.
Phages are classified in a number of virus families;
