Subviral Agents: Prions and Viroids
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A subviral agent infects without a standard virion: a prion is protein alone, and a viroid is a short circular RNA with no protein coat.
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A prion templates a normal protein into its own misfolded shape; a viroid is copied by the host's own enzymes.
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They are mirror images, and neither fits the definition of a virus.
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