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A DNA virus is a virus that has a genome made of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that is replicated by a DNA polymerase.[1]

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  1. 86 relations: Adenoviridae, African swine fever virus, Ampullaviridae, Anelloviridae, Baculoviridae, Baltimore classification, Bamfordvirae, Bicaudaviridae, Bidensovirus, Caudoviricetes, Cell nucleus, Chickenpox, Clavaviridae, Common descent, Conserved sequence, Cupin superfamily, Cytoplasm, Dinodnavirus, DNA, DNA polymerase, Domain (biology), Duplodnaviria, Encapsulin, Endonuclease, Eukaryote, Finnlakeviridae, Fuselloviridae, Fusion gene, Geminiviridae, Genome, Giant virus, Globuloviridae, Guttaviridae, Halopanivirales, Halspiviridae, Herpes, Herpesvirales, Hytrosaviridae, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Jelly roll fold, Kaposi's sarcoma, Last universal common ancestor, Ligamenvirales, Ligation (molecular biology), Messenger RNA, Microviridae, Monodnaviria, Nucleoplasmin, Nudivirus, Ovaliviridae, ... Expand index (36 more) »

  2. DNA viruses

Adenoviridae

Adenoviruses (members of the family Adenoviridae) are medium-sized (90–100 nm), nonenveloped (without an outer lipid bilayer) viruses with an icosahedral nucleocapsid containing a double-stranded DNA genome.

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African swine fever virus

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family.

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Ampullaviridae

Bottigliavirus is the only genus in the family Ampullaviridae and contains 3 species.

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Anelloviridae

Anelloviridae is a family of viruses.

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Baculoviridae

Baculoviridae is a family of viruses.

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Baltimore classification

Baltimore classification is a system used to classify viruses based on their manner of messenger RNA (mRNA) synthesis.

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Bamfordvirae

Bamfordvirae is a kingdom of viruses.

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Bicaudaviridae

Bicaudaviridae is a family of hyperthermophilic archaeal viruses.

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Bidensovirus

Bidensovirus is a genus of single stranded DNA viruses that infect invertebrates.

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Caudoviricetes

Caudoviricetes is a class of viruses known as the tailed bacteriophages (cauda is Latin for "tail").

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Cell nucleus

The cell nucleus (nuclei) is a membrane-bound organelle found in eukaryotic cells.

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Chickenpox

Chickenpox, also known as varicella, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by the initial infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV), a member of the herpesvirus family.

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Clavaviridae

Clavaviridae is a family of double-stranded viruses that infect archaea.

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Common descent

Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time.

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Conserved sequence

In evolutionary biology, conserved sequences are identical or similar sequences in nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) or proteins across species (orthologous sequences), or within a genome (paralogous sequences), or between donor and receptor taxa (xenologous sequences).

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Cupin superfamily

The cupin superfamily is a diverse superfamily of proteins named after its conserved barrel domain (cupa being the Latin term for a small barrel).

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Cytoplasm

In cell biology, the cytoplasm describes all material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus.

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Dinodnavirus

Dinodnavirus is a genus of viruses that infect dinoflagellates.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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DNA polymerase

A DNA polymerase is a member of a family of enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of DNA molecules from nucleoside triphosphates, the molecular precursors of DNA. DNA virus and DNA polymerase are DNA.

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Domain (biology)

In biological taxonomy, a domain (Latin: regio), also dominion, superkingdom, realm, or empire, is the highest taxonomic rank of all organisms taken together.

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Duplodnaviria

Duplodnaviria is a realm of viruses that includes all double-stranded DNA viruses that encode the HK97 fold major capsid protein.

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Encapsulin

The encapsulins are a family of bacterial proteins that serve as the main structural components of encapsulin nanocompartments.

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Endonuclease

In molecular biology, endonucleases are enzymes that cleave the phosphodiester bond within a polynucleotide chain (namely DNA or RNA).

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Eukaryote

The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.

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Finnlakeviridae

Finnlakeviridae is a family of bacterial viruses that is not assigned to any higher taxonomic ranks.

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Fuselloviridae

Fuselloviridae is a family of viruses.

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Fusion gene

A fusion gene is a hybrid gene formed from two previously independent genes.

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Geminiviridae

Geminiviridae is a family of plant viruses that encode their genetic information on a circular genome of single-stranded (ss) DNA.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.

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Giant virus

A giant virus, sometimes referred to as a girus, is a very large virus, some of which are larger than typical bacteria.

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Globuloviridae

Globuloviridae is a family of hyperthermophilic archaeal viruses.

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Guttaviridae

Guttaviridae is a family of viruses.

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Halopanivirales

Halopanivirales is an order of viruses.

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Halspiviridae

Halspiviridae is a family of viruses that consists of a single genus, Salterprovirus, which consists of a single recognised species; Salterprovirus His1 (hereafter, 'His1').

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Herpes

Herpes simplex, often known simply as herpes, is a viral infection caused by the herpes simplex virus.

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Herpesvirales

The Herpesvirales is an order of dsDNA viruses (Baltimore group I) with animal hosts, characterised by a common morphology consisting of an icosahedral capsid enclosed in a glycoprotein-containing lipid envelope.

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Hytrosaviridae

Hytrosaviridae is a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect insects.

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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of and the nomenclature for viruses.

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Jelly roll fold

The jelly roll or Swiss roll fold is a protein fold or supersecondary structure composed of eight beta strands arranged in two four-stranded sheets.

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Kaposi's sarcoma

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a type of cancer that can form masses on the skin, in lymph nodes, in the mouth, or in other organs.

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Last universal common ancestor

The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the hypothesized common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life,--> the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated.

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Ligamenvirales

Ligamenvirales is an order of linear viruses that infect archaea of the phylum Thermoproteota (formerly Crenarchaeota) and have double-stranded DNA genomes.

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Ligation (molecular biology)

Ligation is the joining of two nucleic acid fragments through the action of an enzyme.

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Messenger RNA

In molecular biology, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene, and is read by a ribosome in the process of synthesizing a protein.

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Microviridae

Microviridae is a family of bacteriophages with a single-stranded DNA genome.

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Monodnaviria

Monodnaviria is a realm of viruses that includes all single-stranded DNA viruses that encode an endonuclease of the HUH superfamily that initiates rolling circle replication of the circular viral genome. DNA virus and Monodnaviria are DNA viruses.

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Nucleoplasmin

Nucleoplasmin, the first identified molecular chaperone is a thermostable acidic protein with a pentameric structure.

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Nudivirus

Nudiviruses are animal viruses that constitute the family Nudiviridae.

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Ovaliviridae

Ovaliviridae is a family of viruses of archaea that is not assigned to any higher taxonomic ranks.

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Papillomaviridae

Papillomaviridae is a family of non-enveloped DNA viruses whose members are known as papillomaviruses.

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Papovaviricetes

Papovaviricetes is a class of viruses.

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Parvoviridae

Parvoviruses are a family of animal viruses that constitute the family Parvoviridae.

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Plasmaviridae

Plasmaviridae is a family of bacteria-infecting viruses.

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Plasmid

A plasmid is a small, extrachromosomal DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently.

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Pleolipoviridae

Pleolipoviridae is a family of DNA viruses that infect archaea. DNA virus and Pleolipoviridae are DNA viruses.

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Polyadenylation

Polyadenylation is the addition of a poly(A) tail to an RNA transcript, typically a messenger RNA (mRNA).

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Polydnaviriformidae

Polydnaviriformidae (PDV) is a family of insect viriforms; members are known as polydnaviruses.

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Polyomaviridae

Polyomaviridae is a family of viruses whose natural hosts are primarily mammals and birds.

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Portogloboviridae

Portogloboviridae is a family of dsDNA viruses that infect archaea. DNA virus and Portogloboviridae are DNA viruses.

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Poxviridae

Poxviridae is a family of double-stranded DNA viruses.

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Prokaryote

A prokaryote (less commonly spelled procaryote) is a single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.

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Realm (virology)

In virology, realm is the highest taxonomic rank established for viruses by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which oversees virus taxonomy.

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Replicative transposition

Replicative transposition is a mechanism of transposition in molecular biology, proposed by James A. Shapiro in 1979, in which the transposable element is duplicated during the reaction, so that the transposing entity is a copy of the original element.

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Reverse transcriptase

A reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to convert RNA genome to DNA, a process termed reverse transcription.

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Revtraviricetes

Revtraviricetes is a class of viruses that contains all viruses that encode a reverse transcriptase.

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Rhizidiovirus

Rhizidiovirus is a genus of viruses.

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Riboviria

Riboviria is a realm of viruses that includes all viruses that use a homologous RNA-dependent polymerase for replication.

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RNA polymerase

In molecular biology, RNA polymerase (abbreviated RNAP or RNApol), or more specifically DNA-directed/dependent RNA polymerase (DdRP), is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactions that synthesize RNA from a DNA template.

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Rolling circle replication

Rolling circle replication (RCR) is a process of unidirectional nucleic acid replication that can rapidly synthesize multiple copies of circular molecules of DNA or RNA, such as plasmids, the genomes of bacteriophages, and the circular RNA genome of viroids.

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Rolling hairpin replication

Rolling hairpin replication (RHR) is a unidirectional, strand displacement form of DNA replication used by parvoviruses, a group of viruses that constitute the family Parvoviridae.

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Sense (molecular biology)

In molecular biology and genetics, the sense of a nucleic acid molecule, particularly of a strand of DNA or RNA, refers to the nature of the roles of the strand and its complement in specifying a sequence of amino acids. DNA virus and sense (molecular biology) are DNA.

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Shingles

Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area.

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Shotokuvirae

Shotokuvirae is a kingdom of viruses.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Spiraviridae

Spiraviridae is a family of incertae sedis viruses that replicate in hyperthermophilic archaea of the genus Aeropyrum, specifically Aeropyrum pernix.

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Stem-loop

Stem-loop intramolecular base pairing is a pattern that can occur in single-stranded RNA. DNA virus and Stem-loop are DNA.

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Thaspiviridae

Thaspiviridae is a family of incertae sedis spindle-shaped viruses.

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Transcription (biology)

Transcription is the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA.

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Transcription preinitiation complex

The preinitiation complex (abbreviated PIC) is a complex of approximately 100 proteins that is necessary for the transcription of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes and archaea.

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Tristromaviridae

Tristromaviridae is a family of viruses.

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Tubulavirales

Tubulavirales is an order of viruses.

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Varidnaviria

Varidnaviria is a realm of viruses that includes all DNA viruses that encode major capsid proteins that contain a vertical jelly roll fold.

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Virophage

Virophages are small, double-stranded DNA viral phages that require the co-infection of another virus.

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Virus

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.

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White spot syndrome

White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral infection of penaeid shrimp.

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See also

DNA viruses

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_virus

Also known as DNA viruses, Dna virus infections, Double stranded DNA virus, Double-stranded DNA virus, Double-stranded DNA viruses, DsDNA virus, DsDNA viruses, SDNA virus, Single-stranded DNA virus, Single-stranded DNA viruses, SsDNA virus, Viral DNA.

, Papillomaviridae, Papovaviricetes, Parvoviridae, Plasmaviridae, Plasmid, Pleolipoviridae, Polyadenylation, Polydnaviriformidae, Polyomaviridae, Portogloboviridae, Poxviridae, Prokaryote, Realm (virology), Replicative transposition, Reverse transcriptase, Revtraviricetes, Rhizidiovirus, Riboviria, RNA polymerase, Rolling circle replication, Rolling hairpin replication, Sense (molecular biology), Shingles, Shotokuvirae, Smallpox, Spiraviridae, Stem-loop, Thaspiviridae, Transcription (biology), Transcription preinitiation complex, Tristromaviridae, Tubulavirales, Varidnaviria, Virophage, Virus, White spot syndrome.