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Standard VIII
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How Tiny Is a...
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How tiny is a virus?
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Virus:
Virus is a submicroscopic organism that can replicate only inside a living host cell.
Their size ranges from 10 to 300 nm.
One of the smallest known viruses which infects mammals is the
Porcine circovirus
.
The diameter of its viral capsid is just 17nm in diameter.
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