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How is the capsid protein important to the functioning of a virus?
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How is the capsid protein important to the functioning of a virus?

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The cell transcribes and translates the viralgenetic information into viral capsid proteins, sometimes that genetic program causes the host cell to make copies of the virus and in the process the host cell is destroyed.

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