describe the type of viruses?
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based on their host, viruses can be classified into three types ,namely
animal viruses ,plant viruses, bacteriophages.
Animal Virus
An animal virus is a small
infectious
agent that is unable to replicate outside
a living animal cell. animal viruses
contain only one kind nucleic acid, Either DNA or RNA.
Plant virus
plant virus are viruses that affect plants . like all other viruses plant viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that do
not have the molecular machinery to replicate without a host. plant viruses can be pathogenic to higher plants.
Bacteriophages
A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects the bacteria.
in fact the word bacteriophage literally means bacteria eater because bacteriophages destroy their host cells.All bacteriophages are composed of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a protein structure.
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