Clockwise from top left: Amanita muscaria, a basidiomycete; Sarcoscypha coccinea, an ascomycete; bread covered in mold;

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Clockwise from top left: Amanita muscaria, a basidiomycete; Sarcoscypha coccinea, an ascomycete; bread covered in mold; a chytrid; a Penicillium conidiophore.Amanita muscaria Sarcoscypha coccineamoldPenicilliumconidiophore

LeishmaniaLeishmania donovani, (a species of protozoa) in bone marrow cell

Ebola virus electron micrographelectron micrograph Two rotaviruses: the one on the right is coated with antibodies that stop its attaching to cells and infecting themrotaviruses

HIV Virus infecting a cell

bird flu virus Electron micrograph of the bird flu virus.

Viral DNA joins host DNA b. Making multiple viral RNAs

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