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VIRUSES Chapter 13 VIRUSES Latin for poison Can infect bacteria, fungi, plants animals 1892 - Iwanoski - tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) Filtrate of diseased plant contained infectious material Filtrate did not contain bacteria ? smaller than bacteria 1898 - Beijernick - continued TMV experiments Last plant contaminated as severely as the first Infectious material is replicating inside plant GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Obligate intracellular parasites Can not replicate outside of host Very small (0.3 ?m), filterable Requires electron microscope to see Contain one type of nucleic acid, either DNA or RN