Chapter 154 of 2363 min read
Viruses, viroids and lichens
Why this is asked: The one fact worth knowing cold: a viroid is infectious RNA with no protein coat at all, unlike a virus, which always packages its nucleic acid inside a protein capsid — that missing coat is the whole reason Diener's discovery was notable, and it's the detail options most often drop or reverse.
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