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The paper explains that prions are proteins that can replicate on their own and become infectious. In addition, the paper discusses how prions "multiply in an incredible way; they convert normal protein molecules into dangerous ones simply by including the benign molecules to change their shape" (Prusiner, 1995).

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"Prions are proteins that can replicate on their own and become infectious. Prions are "transmissible and inherited disorders of protein conformation" (Prusiner, 1995). In addition, prions "multiply in an incredible way; they convert normal protein molecules into dangerous ones simply by including the benign molecules to change their shape" (Prusiner, 1995). Prions are the basis of diseases, but it's not a virus, bacteria, fungi or parasite; it's a protein that can infect. Prions penetrate by getting into cells and change normal proteins that's within the cell into prions. As an animated example, Bugs Bunny uses his magic wand to enter Elmer Fudd; Bugs..."

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