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Prions are
Answer: C
Correct answer: Infectious protein particles, lacking detectable nucleic acid
A prion is an infectious protein with no nucleic acid whatever. It is a misfolded form of a normal cellular protein, and it propagates by inducing the normal form to adopt the same misfolding - the mechanism behind scrapie, BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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