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Genome vs Polydnavirus - What's the difference?

genome | polydnavirus |

As nouns the difference between genome and polydnavirus

is that genome is genome (complete genetic information of an organism) while polydnavirus is an insect virus of family polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.

genome

English

Noun

(wikipedia genome) (en noun)
  • (genetics)  The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.}}

    Derived terms

    * genomic * genomics * genomewide

    polydnavirus

    English

    (wikipedia polydnavirus)

    Noun

    (polydnaviruses)
  • An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 13, Donald B. Stoltz & James B. Whitfield, VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses, Science citation
    • , passage=Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses (one of the two major recognized polydnavirus lineages) and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance. }}