A quick animation of the life cycle of a picornavirus that includes an overview of its structure, infection of a cell, production of its eleven proteins, replication, and assembly of its protein capsid. This is NOT an authority on the virus' structure but is intended to give a sense of the complex mechanics of the process with the true relative sizes of the atoms, protein components, ,and RNA strand. The relative dimensions are pretty accurate. It pulls together graphics that are not entirely consistent. It adapts molecular animations created by Drew Berry and others.

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