Question

how do viroids differ from viruses​

Answer 1

Viroids are plant pathogens: small, single-stranded, circular RNA particles that are much simpler than a virus. They do not have a capsid or outer envelope, but, as with viruses, can reproduce only within a host cell. Viroids do not, however, manufacture any proteins. They produce only a single, specific RNA molecule.

Answer 2

• Viroids are smaller than viruses
• Viroids donot have protein covering unlike viruses
• Viroids are discovered by T.O.Diener &Raymer;while viruses was discovered by D.J.Ivanowsky.
• Viroids has less molecular weight than viruses
• Viroids contains only rna whereas viruses can have either dna or rna.