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What type of genetic material do coronaviruses have?

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Viruses are taxonomically organized, hence the presence of viruses families, coronaviruses as we call commonly this type belong to the family Coronaviridae, and is characterized by positive-strand RNA viruses, the Orthocoronaviridae genus (properly the coronaviruses) as member of the Coronaviridae family they are single-stranded RNA viruses, this group causes a wide range of respiratory diseases in animals and humans including the COVID-19.

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