Viruses and viroids differ in structure and the diseases they cause. How?

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Virus is an obligate intracellular parasite which can reproduce only by invading and taking over other cells as they lack the cellular machinery for self reproduction. Viroids are subviral, smallest known agents of infectious disease.
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