Self Quiz for Other Acellular Infectious Agents: Viroids and Prions

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
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1. Small, circular, single-stranded molecules of infectious that cause of a few plant diseases such as potato spindle-tuber disease,cucumber pale fruit, citrus exocortis disease, and cadang-cadang (coconuts) are called ____________. (ans)

2. Infectious protein particles thought to be responsible for a group of transmissible and/or inherited neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, and Gerstmann-Straussler- syndrome in humans as well as scrapie in sheep and goats are called ______________. (ans)

3. Name 3 other neurological protein misfolding diseases that apprear to be initiated by prions. (ans)

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