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We are studying viruses and this was a questions our professor threw out for fun true or false:

"The hepatitis A virus has the same RNA nucleotide bases as gorillas."

I have read the chapter over and over and cannot figure out the answer and now I am curious to know the answer or how to figure out the answer.

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This is kind of a trick question, but really not difficult to understand.

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