Prions are made up only of proteins and lack nucleic acids.
Prions are an infectious particle made of protein. They do not contain DNA or RNA.
dead bodies. They are proteins.
Prions
No, DNA is not found in any prions. Prions are just protein - they don't contain a nucleic acid.
Prions are made up only of proteins and lack nucleic acids.
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Prions are an infectious particle made of protein. They do not contain DNA or RNA.
dead bodies. They are proteins.
Prions
No, DNA is not found in any prions. Prions are just protein - they don't contain a nucleic acid.
No, cooking does not destroy or disable prions. If you were able to cook a meat that contains prions to the point where the prions were disabled, the meat would be rendered inedible.You can use chemicals mixed with heat to destroy prions, but that's not a process you would want to subject your food to.
No, prions aren't organisms or even organism imitators like viruses. Prions are misfolded proteins that can aggregate and cause serious neurological problems. See link below for more info about prions from Answers.com.
The infectious proteins (not made by you) are called prions. An example of this is the mad cow disease.
Prions affect the nervous system (the brain and other neural tissue).
Acellular particles are basically just particles that aren't made up of cells (aka non-cellular). These include viruses, prions and viroids. Because they aren't made up of cells, they aren't classified as living organisms. They are obviously neither eukaryotic or prokaryotic.
Both Viroids and Prions have nucleic acid, but Viroids have no outer protein coat.