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Noel
Can ribosomes also manufacture nucleic acid & not just protein, like when a virus reproduces itself inside a host cell?
As I understand it, ribosomes in the cell manufacture proteins as needed by the body, but only proteins & not nucleic acids. Yet when a virus invades & hijacks the machinery of the host cell for its own purposes, the final product is thousands of newly minted copies of the whole virus nucleoprotein--that is, protein & nucleic acid together. How did the nucleic acid part come about--was it also produced by the host cell’s ribosomes,or by some other mechanism in the cell?
4 AnswersBiology3 weeks ago