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noun • anything that provides inspiration for later work • a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism • a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | ||||
| 26% | 9 | The smallpox virus or yellow fever virus | ||
noun • eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease | ||||
| 26% | 10 | Rous sarcoma virus is a type of this virus | ||
noun • any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell | ||||
Beginning Of A Virus Or Of An Idea
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GERM which was last seen in the Telegraph Mini crossword.
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