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Virus architecture is described in terms of structural units of increasing complexity, from the smallest biochemical unit (the polypeptide chain) to the infectious particle (or virion). These terms, which are used throughout this text, are defined in Table 4.2. Although virus particles are ordered assemblies of macromolecules exquisitely suited for protection and delivery of viral genomes, they are constructed according to the general principles of biochemistry and protein structure.