For the moment, symptomatic treatment was in order, then detailed analysis of the virus or viroid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Mirror] Reference

"You've got a shipload of viroid life-forms outside draining our power systems, and I've got a Trill symbiont in the infirmary who says it can help us.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Locking her arms around the doctor despite his indignant yelp, she whirled him away from the entrance and beyond the snaking grasp of one of the viroid creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"What we have here isn't an Andorian who's been infected by some alien virus's DNAwe have a viroid life-form that's absorbed an Andorian's genetic code for its own selective usage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

(For some reason, no one has found an animal viroid.).    From Wordnik.com.  [*Science* Blog Portal] Reference

The enzymes use the viroid as a template to make a new viroid progeny.    From Wordnik.com.  [*Science* Blog Portal] Reference

Vacuolar apoplastic localization leaf tissue tomato plants infested citrus exocortis viroid; vitro synthesis processing.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

In fact, it turned out that a disease that had nearly wiped out the American mum industry in the mid-1950s had been caused by a viroid of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [*Science* Blog Portal] Reference

Yet that's enough genetic information to let a viroid infect a plant and replicate itself by taking advantage of the enzymes the plant uses to replicate its DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [*Science* Blog Portal] Reference

"And Jadzia got so much radiation damage that she separated from Dax and sacrificed herself to lead the rest of the viroid aliens away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Nor would I think anyone could consider a single molecule of non-coding RNA doesn’t make any proteins to be “alive”, yet there is a reproductive pathogen called a “viroid” that is just that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution and the origins of HIV - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Yes, it could have being more scientific-based, even in ways not taking away any gameplay. for example it could have being both scientific & fun if you did start as a single-celled organism and at some point reached a point where your habitat is full of your immidiate offsprings and you need to evolve into a model where you can coordinate and "bring order to the colony" thus making the plunge into multicellular organisms... and yes, having the water stage promised initially would have being nice.for example i can envision a pre-cellular stage which is akin to base building out of peptides, and even choosing different theories: like the RNA world hypothesis - starting as an instable viroid in a maze of clay molecules could have being fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists: Spore Sucks] Reference

A viroid can contain as few as 250 nucleotides.    From Wordnik.com.  [*Science* Blog Portal] Reference