And finally DNA viruses must first transcribe DNA into RNA before the proteins can actually be synthesized. However, for RNA viruses they basically contain the RNA that can be used pretty much directly to synthesize our protein. So we see our RNA viruses basically bypass the DNA to RNA transcription process. They can use that RNA to basically translate to synthesize our proteins. And these are the major differences between DNA and RNA viruses. And once again within the RNA viruses we have the plus strand RNA and the minus trans RNA virus.