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Viruses vs Viroids - What's the difference?

viruses | viroids |

As a noun viruses

is .

As a proper noun viroids is

a taxonomic name, sometimes considered an order, of a group of subviral agents that can be pathogenic in plants and are implicated in human hepatitis d infections.

viruses

English

Noun

(head)

    • See also

    * (Plural of virus)

    viroids

    Translingual

    Proper noun

    (taxoninfl)
  • A taxonomic name, sometimes considered an order, of a group of subviral agents that can be pathogenic in plants and are implicated in human hepatitis D infections.

    • Hyponyms

    * (group of subviral agents)  - families

    External links

    * ("viroids" on Wikipedia) * ("viroids" species on Wikimedia) ----