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Ask community Community Discussion Question: is virus and virion the same thing?in virions dna or rna are double or single stranded?
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[Post New] 19 Apr 2009 21:28:18 IST
   Subject: is virus and virion the same thing?in virions dna or rna are double or single stranded?
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[Post New] 19 Apr 2009 22:09:47 IST
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 A structurally complete virus is also known as virion. It is structurally identical with virus.
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[Post New] 11 Jul 2009 14:29:30 IST
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VIrion are the infectious particle of the virus. Virus is made up of nucleic acid(RNA n DNA) and a capsid. Some virus also contains envelope.The nucleic acid and capsid are the infectious agent of the virus.this is called virion.Thus, virion is the infetious part of the virus.
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