Make a personal spider repellent to repel spiders and ticks. To make the personal repellent, mix 1 tsp. of essential lavender oil with 8 oz. of your favorite sunscreen, face lotion, body lotion or aloe vera gel. Shake the mixture well to combine the ingredients. Slather it on your skin as often as desired.
| Share | Cite. virus, parasite with a noncellular structure composed mainly of nucleic acid within a protein coat. Most viruses are too small (100â2,000 Angstrom units) to be seen with the light microscope and thus must be studied by electron microscopes. Share | Cite. virus, parasite with a noncellular structure composed mainly of nucleic acid within a protein coat. Most viruses are too small (100â2,000 Angstrom units) to be seen with the light microscope and thus must be studied by electron microscopes.
Nucleic acids consist of a chain of linked units called nucleotides. Each nucleotide consists of three subunits: a phosphate group and a sugar (ribose in the case of RNA, deoxyribose in DNA) make up the backbone of the nucleic acid strand, and attached to the sugar is one of a set of nucleobases.