Prions are best described as:

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Question recap: Prions are best described as:
Option 1: 'Toxins produced by fish' This is incorrect because prions are not toxins, and they are not specific to fish; toxins from fish would be a completely different class of harmful substances.
Option 2: 'Parasites found in undercooked eggs' This is incorrect; prions are not parasites and they are not associated with eggs or parasitic organisms. Parasites are living organisms that replicate within a host, whereas prions are misfolded proteins.
Option 3: 'Biological agents that can cause diseases such as Mad Cow Disease' This option is correct. Prions are infectious misfolded proteins that can induce normal proteins to adopt the misfolded shape, leading to neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease) in cattle. They are not viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites, but a distinct class of infectious protein particles.
Option 4: 'Viruses that cause the flu' This is incorrect; influenza is caused by viruses, which are a different biological entity from prions. Prions lack nucleic acids and do not replicate like viruses do, so this statement confuses two separate types of pathogens.

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