5.2.5 Viroids
Channel: Are We Alone?
Date: 04/10/2021

Viroids. Discovery by Diener of the Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid. Viroids are plausible living fossils of the hypothetical RNA world. The relationship between viroids and large non-coding RNAs. The difference between the LUCA of all cellular life and the LUCA of all life (including viruses).