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How tiny is a virus?


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Virus:

  1. Virus is a submicroscopic organism that can replicate only inside a living host cell.
  2. Their size ranges from 10 to 300 nm.
  3. One of the smallest known viruses which infects mammals is the Porcine circovirus.
  4. The diameter of its viral capsid is just 17nm in diameter.

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