ACELLULAR LIFE (c) Lipids and proteins (d) All of the above

1. What components make up a virus? 11. Which of the following is a helical virus?
(a) A protein shell and nucleic acid (a) TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus) (b) T4 bacteriophage
(b) A protein shell and mitochondria (c) Poxvirus (d) Herpesvirus
(c) Nucleic acid and cell membrane 12. Which of the following statements is true about
viruses?
(d) Nucleic acid, cell wall, and cell membrane
(a) They are free-living (b) They are obligate parasites
2. What is the name for the protein shell of a virus that
encloses the genetic material? (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of the above
(a) Virion (b) Capsid (c) Peplomers (d) Capsomers 13. What is a fully formed infectious viral particle
called?
3. Which statement is true about a virion?
(a) Virion (b) Viroid (c) Capsid (d) Virusoid
(a) It's a lytic phage
14. What forms the genetic component of viruses?
(b) It's a lysogenic phage
(a) DNA (b) RNA (c) DNA or RNA (d) Both DNA and RNA
(c) It refers to the viral capsid
15. What is the protein shell that envelops the viral
(d) It's an infectious and fully formed viral particle genome called?
4. What forms the genome of a virus? (a) Capsid (b) Outer envelope
(a) DNA (b) RNA (c) DNA or RNA (d) Both DNA and RNA (c) Capsomere (d) Nucleic acid
5. What are the main functions of the capsid? 16. Which of the following statements is true about the
(a) It determines the antigenic specificity of the virus tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)?

(b) It protects genetic material from nuclease attack (a) It's an RNA virus (b) It's a DNA virus (c) It's a
bacteriophage (d) It's either ss DNA or ds DNA
(c) Both A and B
17. What is the shape of the TMV (Tobacco Mosaic
(d) None of these Virus)?
6. Which statement is true about capsomeres? (a) Rod-shaped (b) Egg-shaped
(a) They are individual units of the capsid (c) Cuboid-shaped (d) Sphere-shaped
(b) They are viral proteins for replication 18. Kaposi's Sarcoma is type of liver cancer, is symptom
(c) They are units of nucleic acid in viruses of _____viral disease.

(d) All of the above (a) Hepatitis (b) AIDS (c) Dengue (d) Measles
20. What are bacteriophages that cause bacterial cell
7. Dark yellow urine, Fatigue with Jaundice are
symptoms of lysis called?

(a) Herpes (b) Hepatitis (c) Poliomylitis (d) N.O.T (a) Viroids (b) Lysogenic phages

8. What is the term for the viral genome inserted into (c) Virulent phages (d) Temperate phages
bacterial DNA? 21. Which virus has the smallest genome?
(a) Lysogeny (b) Prophage (a) Rabies virus (b) Circovirus
(c) Lytic cycle (d) Virulent phage (c) Herpesvirus (d) Mimivirus
9. Which one of following is positive sense virus? 22. What are infectious RNA particles without a protein
(a) Measles virus (b) Hepatitis C virus coat called?

(c) Ebola virus (d) N.O.T (a) Prion (b) Virion (c) Viroid (d) Virusoid

10. What is the viral envelope composed of?

(a) Proteins (b) Glycoproteins