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objectives

… → genus of the family orthomyxoviridae

the generas are:

influenzabirus A,B,C

eveneloepd virus (influenza a)

genome:

• single stranded
• negative → must be made positive before production of proteins
• s8 different segments of genome (instead of continuous. it is actually segmented)

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8 segments → each segmen produces 1 or more proteins