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A plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat
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viroid
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n. the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat [syn: virusoid ]
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n. 1 plant pathogens, of the order ''Viroidales'', that consist of just a short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses 2 human pathogen, most notably hepatitis D.
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Viroids are among the smallest infectious pathogens known, larger only than prions , which are misfolded proteins. Viroids consist solely of short strands of circular, single-stranded RNA without protein coats . They are mostly plant pathogens, some of ...
Usage examples of viroid.
Locking her arms around the doctor despite his indignant yelp, she whirled him away from the entrance and beyond the snaking grasp of one of the viroid creatures.
Jadzia got so much radiation damage that she separated from Dax and sacrificed herself to lead the rest of the viroid aliens away.
He assumed that the apparatus had been infected with the viroids during its original assembly.
Specimens taken revealed the specificity of their action, much like that of the viroids already known.
It was a heretical, minority view, until the CDC in Atlanta decided out of desperation to try his theories out, and found the very dormant viroids Les predicted -- mixed in with the glue used to seal paper milk cartons, envelopes, postage stamps.
Viroids like this one caused several plant diseases, including pale cucumber disease, chrysanthemum stunt, chlorotic mottle, cadang-cadang, citrus exocortis.
The viroid was subsiding, eventually they could hardly even find it, no matter how hard and long they centrifuged samples.
And there were others helping in the search, working ahead of him on the frontiers, and beside him in related fields, from the small—virology, where the inquiries into tiny forms such as prions and viroids were revealing even smaller forms, almost too partial to be called life: virids, viris, virs, vis, vs, all of which might have relevance to the larger problem.
And there were others helping in the search, working ahead of him on the frontiers, and beside him in related fields, from the small-virology, where the inquiries into tiny forms such as prions and viroids were revealing even smaller forms, almost too partial to be called life: virids, viris, virs, vis, vs, all of which might have relevance to the larger problem.