Viral Infection and Central Dogma

One of the most important steps for viruses to infect us is through replicating million copies of themselves,using our cell's mechanisms.In short,they actually interrupted the theory used by many multi-cell organisms known as the Central Dogma.

The Central Dogma refers to a series of processes to make proteins.Proteins are important for our daily biological processes that makes us survive.The two main processes are transcription and translation which converts DNA into RNA and formation of polypetides respectively.

Let's check out a video made by the Japanese researchers to explain the Central Dogma in a creative way.

However,the viruses that are classified under the Baltimore's classification differs from the Central Dogma. In reality,the viruses diverse in all shapes and sizes. This is also similar for their genome.