Fundamentals Of Microbiology 10th Edition by Jeffrey Pommerville

Exercise 45

If you were to stop 1,000 people on the street and ask if they recognize the term "virus," all would probably respond in the affirmative. If you were then to ask the people to describe a virus, you might hear answers like, "It's very small" or "It's a germ," or a host of other colorful but not very descriptive terms. As a student of microbiology, how would you describe a virus