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- Question
Viruses largely lack metabolic machinery of their own to generate energy or to synthesize
Options- A. protein
- B. carbohydrate
- C. alcohol
- D. all of these
- Correct Answer
- protein
- 1. The repressor protein, since the cell is resistant to lysis from externally infecting phage, is also called
Options- A. immunity repressor
- B. immunity operon
- C. operon repressor
- D. none of these Discuss
- 2. Which of the following statements is not true of viruses?
Options- A. Viruses have been successfully grown in pure cultures in test tubes
- B. All viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites
- C. All viruses have either DNA or RNA as their genetic material
- D. Viruses probably arose from small fragments of cellular chromosomes Discuss
- 3. In the simplest capsid, there is a capsomere at each of the 12 vertices; this capsomere, which is surrounded by five other capsomeres, is termed a
Options- A. penton
- B. polyhedra
- C. icosahedral
- D. helical Discuss
- 4. Reverse transcriptase is a useful enzyme to have when
Options- A. an RNA virus converts its RNA to DNA
- B. there are no host cells present
- C. nutrients are scarce
- D. spikes are forming in the new virus Discuss
- 5. The temperate phage possesses a gene that codes for a repressor protein which makes the cell resistant to lysis initiated by
Options- A. the prophage
- B. lytic infection by other viruses
- C. Both (a) and (b)
- D. none of these Discuss
- 6. Group E phages have
Options- A. single stranded DNA
- B. double stranded DNA
- C. single stranded RNA
- D. double stranded DNA Discuss
- 7. Which of the following viruses show/s transformation of infected cells?
Options- A. Hepatitis B virus
- B. Human T cell lymphotronic virus type I
- C. Epstein-Barr virus
- D. All of these Discuss
- 8. The capsomeres consist of a number of proteins subunits or molecules called
Options- A. protomers
- B. caproprotein
- C. procapsid
- D. none of these Discuss
- 9. The temperate phage that have no site specificity for insertion and may even be able to insert multiple copies of their DNA into a single bacterial chromosome is
Options- A. ? phage enzyme
- B. ? DNA
- C. Phage Mu
- D. Phage Mn Discuss
- 10. Which of the following viruses has not been associated with human cancer?
Options- A. Hepatitis C virus
- B. Hepatitis B virus
- C. Varicella-Zoster virus
- D. Herpes simplex virus type 2 Discuss
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Correct Answer: immunity repressor
Correct Answer: Viruses have been successfully grown in pure cultures in test tubes
Correct Answer: penton
Correct Answer: an RNA virus converts its RNA to DNA
Correct Answer: Both (a) and (b)
Correct Answer: single stranded RNA
Correct Answer: All of these
Correct Answer: protomers
Correct Answer: Phage Mu
Correct Answer: Varicella-Zoster virus
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