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Question 1

1. Which structure is shared by all viruses?

Answer

Mitochondria

Answer

Protein coat

Question 2

2. Which type of virus causes the common cold?

Answer

Influenza virus

Answer

Rhinovirus

Answer

Rabies virus

Question 3

3. Which enzyme is used by retroviruses to make DNA from RNA?

Answer

RNA polymerase

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Reverse transcriptase

Answer

DNA polymerase

Question 4

4. The function of reverse transcriptase is to:

Answer

Convert RNA into DNA

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Replicate DNA

Answer

Convert protein into DNA

Answer

Convert DNA into RNA

Question 5

5. Which of the following best describes HIV?

Answer

RNA virus with reverse transcriptase

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Non-infectious virus

Answer

Plant virus

Question 6

6. Viruses are inactive:

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At high temperatures

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Outside a host cell

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In the presence of light

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In acidic medium

Question 7

7. Which of the following diseases is NOT caused by a virus?

Answer

Tuberculosis

Question 8

8. Which of the following viral diseases is prevented using a vaccine?

Answer

Common cold

Answer

Hepatitis B

Question 9

9. What does the term “virion” refer to?

Answer

Viral toxin

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Viral genome

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Viral protein only

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Complete, infectious virus particle

Question 10

10. Which viral disease causes damage to the immune system?

Question 11

11. What is the main mode of transmission for HIV?

Answer

Insect bites

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Sexual contact and blood

Answer

Contaminated food

Question 12

12. Which virus affects the liver?

Answer

Hepatitis virus

Answer

Polio virus

Question 13

13. Which virus has both DNA and a lipid envelope?

Answer

Influenza virus

Answer

Herpes simplex virus

Answer

Polio virus

Question 14

14. What type of nucleic acid is found in HIV?

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Single-stranded DNA

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Single-stranded RNA

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Double-stranded DNA

Answer

Double-stranded RNA

Question 15

15. The AIDS virus primarily targets:

Answer

Helper T-cells

Answer

Red blood cells

Question 16

16. Which enzyme do viruses lack?

Answer

Reverse transcriptase

Answer

RNA polymerase

Question 17

17. Viruses are classified on the basis of:

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Shape and size only

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Number of ribosomes

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Type of nucleic acid

Question 18

18. Which type of virus causes cervical cancer?

Question 19

19. What is the incubation period of HIV before symptoms of AIDS appear?

Answer

Several years

Answer

2–4 months

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Immediate symptoms

Answer

1–2 weeks

Question 20

20. The protein coat of a virus is composed of subunits called:

Answer

Capsomeres

Question 21

21. Which of the following is considered an acellular organism?

Question 22

22. Which of the following structures is absent in viruses?

Answer

Protein coat

Answer

Nucleic acid

Question 23

23. A virus cannot reproduce unless it:

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Absorbs sunlight

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Has nutrients

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Is in water

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Is inside a host cell

Question 24

24. Which component helps the virus to attach to host cells?

Answer

Envelope proteins

Question 25

25. Why are viruses considered obligate parasites?

Answer

They require a host to reproduce

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They are cellular

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They live independently

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They are photosynthetic

Question 26

26. Which of the following best describes a virus?

Answer

Living cell

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Non-living chemical

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Acellular infectious agent

Answer

Prokaryotic organism

Question 27

27. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for work on the HIV virus?

Answer

Jonas Salk

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Luc Montagnier

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Edward Jenner

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Louis Pasteur

Question 28

28. Viruses can be seen with:

Answer

Compound microscope

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Light microscope

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Electron microscope

Answer

Dissecting microscope

Question 29

29. The shape of a bacteriophage resembles:

Answer

Lunar lander or tadpole

Question 30

30. Which virus was the first to be crystallized?

Answer

Influenza virus

Answer

Tobacco mosaic virus

Answer

AIDS virus

Answer

Polio virus

Question 31

31. Which of the following viral diseases can be prevented by a vaccine?

Answer

Hepatitis B

Answer

Common cold

Question 32

32. The outer envelope of some viruses is made of:

Answer

Peptidoglycan

Answer

Lipid membrane

Question 33

33. The protein coat of a virus is called:

Question 34

34. Which of these diseases is not caused by a virus?

Answer

Chickenpox

Question 35

35. Who discovered the first virus?

Answer

Edward Jenner

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Louis Pasteur

Answer

Martinus Beijerinck

Answer

Robert Hooke

Question 36

36. Viruses are considered living when they:

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Are in air

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Are inside host cells

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Are in water

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Are in crystalline form

Question 37

37. Viruses that infect plants are usually:

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Bacteriophages

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DNA viruses

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Retroviruses

Answer

RNA viruses

Question 38

38. Which virus leads to the disease AIDS?

Question 39

39. How is viral RNA replicated in host cells?

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By virus itself

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By host cell enzymes

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It does not replicate

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By sunlight

Question 40

40. Which viral disease is sexually transmitted?

Question 41

41. Which scientist first observed the mosaic disease in tobacco plants?

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Louis Pasteur

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Dmitri Ivanovsky

Question 42

42. Viruses multiply by:

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Host-directed replication

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Binary fission

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Fragmentation

Question 43

43. What shape is the tobacco mosaic virus?

Answer

Icosahedral

Question 44

44. Which part of the virus determines its host specificity?

Answer

Enzyme content

Answer

Capsid proteins or envelope glycoproteins

Question 45

45. Which virus infects bacteria?

Answer

Bacteriophage

Answer

Orthomyxovirus

Answer

Baculovirus

Answer

Retrovirus

Question 46

46. The core of a virus contains:

Answer

Mitochondria

Answer

DNA or RNA

Question 47

47. How are viruses different from bacteria?

Answer

Bacteria can’t reproduce

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Bacteria are acellular

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Viruses have nuclei

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Viruses need a host to replicate

Question 48

48. The genetic material of a virus can be:

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Both DNA and RNA in the same virus

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Either DNA or RNA, but not both

Question 49

49. Viral DNA integrated into the host DNA is called:

Question 50

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