Virus vs Viroid What is the Difference

Virus vs ViroidWhat is the Difference?
Professor DeBacco
Virus- Nucleic Acid Wrapped in a Protein Coat
A virus is an infectious agent consisting of a segment of a nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat.
Viruses cannot self replicate.
In order to multiply viruses must infect (host) cells and use components of the host cell to make copies of itself.
Viroid- Very Simple
One of the most simple structures
50-80 times smaller than the smallest viral genomes
Currently, viroids are the smallest known infectious agents that mainly cause diseases in plants.
Free floating piece of circular genetic information
Very small in size
Can only be seen with an electron microscope
Comparison
Viruses are small and simple, but viroids are smaller and even more simple
Also…
This is the appropriate time to use the word “strain”… when referring to a virus;-)
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Cheers Professor, thanks for another very informative video 👊

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[@StartLivingNow1963]

Another Great Video Thank You🙂

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[@hewasdeadwhenigotthere46]

Another great and informative video. Thank you!!!

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Glad you enjoyed it, more to come soon;-)

[@hewasdeadwhenigotthere46]

I only use the term cultivar and people think im the ignorant one 😢

[@ottoflouer1750]

Who cares you know you're right, live your life bud

[@DeBaccoUniversity]

It is a hard thing to get people to change.

[@nathanscottporter7857]

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[@swankshire6939]

Im still going to call them strains. We call things by a technically incorrect name all the time. We call cucumbers vegetables along with other "errors". If you want to call strains cultivars then you also have to apply that same logic every else.

[@DeBaccoUniversity]

This is where education comes into play.

[@johnbrisbin3626]

I have a hard time with the "If I can't fix everything, I won't fix anything" philosophy. You might as well not even play the game of life at all.

[@sousay2000]

Class in session

[@DeBaccoUniversity]

This is the start to a few that will discuss Hop Latent Viroid.