Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Viroids

What is a viroids?

4 comments:

Abby said...

Viroids are plant pathogens. They consist of a short stretch of highly complementary, circular, single-stranded RNA. It does not have a protein coat.

Kelsey M. said...

Viroids are plant pathogens. They are single stranded with RNA. Viroid RNA doesn't code for protein.

kelseyr. said...

Viroids are plant pathogens. The consist of short stretch strands of RNA. They were discovered by Theodor Diener.

Anonymous said...

Viroids are infectious agents composed exclusively of a single piece of circular single stranded RNA which has some double-stranded regions.Sometimes called subviral particles.Cause plant disease.