Life: The Science of Biology
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Chapter 25.4, Problem 3R
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The treatment of some human diseases by the viruses.

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Viruses are basically the biological agent, which aids in reproduction of the cell within the cells of the living organisms. The viruses infect another organism and force the host cell to generate many different kinds of identical copies of the original virus that too at an extraordinary rate. Viruses can have DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or RNA (ribonucleic acid).

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