The Viruses- Classification, Structure, and Diseases Viruses are sub-microscopic, acellular, and non-cytoplasmic infectious agents. These replicates are only in the living cell of an organism. Viruses can infect every type of life form like animals, plants, microorganisms like bacteria, etc. and these are transmissible from diseased to healthy organisms. Dmitri Ivanvosky discovered the virus (1892) in an extract of a tobacco plant that was infected with the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). The study of Viruses is known as virology (under microbiology) The term virus was coined by Pasteur (Latin Virus-…
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