EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -All viruses have genetic material (a genome) made of nucleic acid. You, like all other cell-based life, use DNA as your genetic material. Viruses, on the other hand, may use either RNA or DNA, both of which are types of nucleic acid.

Detailed explanation-2: -Virus Core Structure The larger viruses contain in a core the nucleic acid genome complexed with basic protein(s) and protected by a single-or double layered capsid (consisting of more than one species of protein) or by an envelope (Fig.

Detailed explanation-3: -When a virus particle is independent from its host, it consists of a viral genome, or genetic material, contained within a protein shell called a capsid.