Which of the following is NOT thought to be a mechanism by which viroids cause disease in their plant hosts?
A) By basepairing to an important cellular RNA, preventing its function.
B) By activating the dsRNA induced protein kinase.
C) By causing the degradation of cellular mRNAs via the RNAi pathway.
D) By interfering with mRNA splicing because they resemble a cellular snRNA.
E) By inhibiting the machinery that exports mRNAs out of the nucleus.
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