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What does the AIDS virus look like?


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Like a basketball. A sphere made up of a lot of lumpy spheroidal things (proteins) jammed together. Also, it's hollow: inside the outer covering is another coating, and inside that another lump or two (enzymes) and some RNA, which looks like a long ribbon, that may be folded up tightly, I don't know.

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