{"id":4469,"date":"2023-01-05T12:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T06:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:02:52","slug":"what-is-virovore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-virovore\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Virovore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Virovore?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The organisms which <strong>eat viruses<\/strong> are called virovore.<\/li>\n<li>It has been identified as an actual species of protist that feasts on viruses.<\/li>\n<li>These virus-eating species of protists which are their kingdom on the tree of life and are not an animal, plants, or fungi are now classified as Virovores.<\/li>\n<li>It is a species of <strong>Halteria<\/strong>; microscopic ciliates that populate freshwater worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>The microbe Halteria is a common genus of protists known to flit about as its hair-like cilia propel it through the water.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re made up of nucleic acids, nitrogen, and phosphorus. It can eat huge numbers of infectious chloroviruses that share their aquatic habitat.<\/li>\n<li>These organisms can <strong>sustain themselves with viruses,<\/strong> consuming many and growing in size.<\/li>\n<li>The new findings may change our understanding of the role viruses play in the food chain at a microscopic level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Virus?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is a parasite having nucleic acid, protein, and lipid particles that infect and proliferate in living cells. They have a DNA or RNA core surrounded by a capsid, which is a protein covering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/virovore-breakthrough-what-is-virovore-an-organism-that-eats-viruses-discovered-101672747643136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is \u2018virovore\u2019: An organism that eats viruses discovered<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virovoreis a  virus-eating species of protists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}