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how a virus infecting a plant differs from that infecting an animal

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Virus infecting plants contain single stranded RNA as its genetic material and capsid is the outer boundary of the plant virus while animal virus contain double stranded DNA as its genetic material and capsid envelope is the outermost boundary of the virus body. In animals, virus enters through phagocytosis and in plants, these enter through wound or pore.

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