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Virus Summary
1,466 words, approx. 5 pages
Viruses are tiny particles that consist mainly of protein and nucleic acid such as DNA or RNA. Because they contain genetic material, they are able to reproduce, but lacking cell structures and the ability to metabolize food, they can reproduce only...
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Viral Genetics Summary
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Viral genetics, the study of the genetic mechanisms that operate during the life cycle of viruses, utilizes biophysical, biological, and genetic analyses to study the viral genome and its variation. The virus genome consists of only one type of nucleic...
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The Discovery of Viruses Summary
1,274 words, approx. 4 pages
By the late nineteenth century, the work of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) and other scientists had established the germ theory of disease and identified the bacteria that caused many ailments. But they found that some diseases were caused by invisible...
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Viruses Summary
1,066 words, approx. 4 pages
Viruses are infectious agents that have no organelles or reproductive machinery of their own. Viruses cannot duplicate their DNA or RNA, nor can they translate their genetic information into protein. Essentially, they are small bags of genes that...
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Virus Information
10,387 words, approx. 35 pages
sh I: dsDNA viruses II: ssDNA viruses III: dsRNA viruses IV: (+)ssRNA viruses V: (-)ssRNA viruses VI: ssRNA-RT viruses VII: dsDNA-RT...
 


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Virus Vs. Virus
03/19/2002: 1,836 words, approx. 6 pages
00-00-0000 VIRUS VS. VIRUS -- MERCK SEES PROMISE IN A NOVEL APPROACH FIGHTING AIDS WITH THE COMMON COLD By LEWIS KRAUSKOPF, STAFF WRITER Date: 03-19-2002, Tuesday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B WEST...
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The Boston Globe
A Cunning Virus
03/27/1988: 637 words, approx. 2 pages
The more that scientists learn about the virus that causes AIDS, the more remarkable it becomes. Each finding attests to how incredibly difficult it will be to thwart this disease. Though easy to kill in the open with ordinary chemicals like bleach water,...
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Thousands of Britons sickened by virus
1/4/2008: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years. Doctors estimate that hundreds of thousands of people may be affected by norovirus in the coming days. Dozens of hospital wards across the country have...
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Tomato-killing virus detected in Calif.
5/22/2007: 452 words, approx. 2 pages
An insect-borne virus that has killed tomato plants across Central America, Florida and Georgia has been detected in California for the first time.The virus, known as tomato yellow leaf curl, devastated crops in the Dominican Republican and in Mexico, forcing those countries to curtail the...
 


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