There are a few types of unusual infectious particles in the world. Viruses seem pretty simple, with their genetic material and some recognition proteins. Viroids and prions are even simpler; viroids are only bits of genetic material without any protective protein coat, while prions are nothing more than a type of protein that triggers other proteins to misfold. Some kinds of bacteria can also lead to infections when a colony of bacterial cells rapidly reproduces in a host. Place these disease-causing agents in order from those that meet the fewest criteria for living things to those that meet all the criteria for living things.
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viroidvirusprionbacteria
viroid (viroids are only bits of genetic material without any protective protein coat)
prion (prions are nothing more than a type of protein that triggers other proteins to misfold)
virus (viruses contain genetic material and some recognition proteins)
bacteria (bacteria are single-celled organisms that meet all the criteria for living things)