The volume of a smallest virus particle is
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The volume of the smallest virus is 7 X 10^-7µ3.
Viruses are very small agents that are infectious in nature and lives only within the living cells.
They multiply randomly living in the cells.
The hepadnaviruses are the smallest in size but can cause liver damages in human beings which are often fatal.
17 nm is the volume of a smallest virus particle.
Explanation:
The smallest virus specie is called as porcine circovirus, shortly called as PCV. It is 1760 base pairs long. It is circular in shape with single stranded DNA and is icosahedral in nature. It belongs to family called circoviridae and has the replicating ability in the eukaryotic cell. It lacks cell envelope and is 17 nm in diameter. Thus it can be inferred that the volume of smallest virus particle in 17 nm.