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viroid

NOUN
  1. the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat

How To Use viroid In A Sentence

  • They include animals, insects, and nematodes (while vine diseases include the microbes bacteria, fungi, phytoplasma, viroids, and virus).
  • In 1971, ARS researchers determined that a viroid was the cause of potato spindle tuber disease, which previously had been identified as a virus.
  • Fast, accurate tests, based on antibody testing technology, were developed for trichinosis in pigs; for anaplasmosis, a costly parasitic disease in cattle; and for plant viruses and viroids.
  • Taxonomically this places virinos between conventional viruses and viroids (a class of plant pathogens which neither need nor code for proteins to be infectious).
  • A single viroid was found to cause more than a dozen different plant diseases.
  • If you find so much as a pre-biotic spherule, a pseudo-membranous configuration, even a viroid aggregate, the show's off. THE WRATH OF KHAN
  • The scrapie agent in sheep may be similar to viroids.
  • Prions do not contain DNA or RNA as do fungi, bacteria, viruses, viroids, or any other previously known infectious entities.
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