Subviral Particles: Prions and Viroids (2B)
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QUESTION
Choose the agent most likely to remain infectious after UV irradiation: prion or viroid?
QUESTION
Choose the agent most likely to remain infectious after UV irradiation: prion or viroid?
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Prion. UV irradiation damages nucleic acids, inactivating viroids but not prions, which lack any genome.
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