• Question: What are viruses made of?

    Asked by anon-267534 on 11 Nov 2020.
    • Photo: Bradley Young

      Bradley Young answered on 11 Nov 2020:

      Fundamentally, everything is made up of atoms. The atoms in viruses are mostly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus.
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      What makes a virus work though is the structures these atoms make up. A virus structure is made of and it carries the genes of the virus which is called RNA.

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