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Question 1

1. Which enzyme do viruses lack?

Answer

Reverse transcriptase

Answer

RNA polymerase

Question 2

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

Answer

Double-stranded DNA

Answer

Single-stranded DNA

Answer

Single-stranded RNA

Answer

Double-stranded RNA

Question 3

3. Viruses can be seen with:

Answer

Light microscope

Answer

Electron microscope

Answer

Compound microscope

Answer

Dissecting microscope

Question 4

4. Which type of virus causes the common cold?

Answer

Influenza virus

Answer

Rhinovirus

Answer

Rabies virus

Question 5

5. How are viruses different from bacteria?

Answer

Bacteria can’t reproduce

Answer

Viruses need a host to replicate

Answer

Viruses have nuclei

Answer

Bacteria are acellular

Question 6

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

Question 7

7. The shape of a bacteriophage resembles:

Answer

Lunar lander or tadpole

Question 8

8. Why are viruses considered obligate parasites?

Answer

They are cellular

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They live independently

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They require a host to reproduce

Answer

They are photosynthetic

Question 9

9. A virus cannot reproduce unless it:

Answer

Is inside a host cell

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Absorbs sunlight

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Has nutrients

Answer

Is in water

Question 10

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

Answer

Envelope proteins

Question 11

11. Which structure is shared by all viruses?

Answer

Mitochondria

Answer

Protein coat

Question 12

12. How is viral RNA replicated in host cells?

Answer

By virus itself

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It does not replicate

Answer

By host cell enzymes

Answer

By sunlight

Question 13

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

Answer

Jonas Salk

Answer

Louis Pasteur

Answer

Edward Jenner

Answer

Luc Montagnier

Question 14

14. Which of the following best describes a virus?

Answer

Non-living chemical

Answer

Prokaryotic organism

Answer

Acellular infectious agent

Answer

Living cell

Question 15

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

Answer

Enzyme content

Answer

Capsid proteins or envelope glycoproteins

Question 16

16. Which virus was the first to be crystallized?

Answer

Tobacco mosaic virus

Answer

Influenza virus

Answer

AIDS virus

Answer

Polio virus

Question 17

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

Answer

Herpes simplex virus

Answer

Influenza virus

Answer

Polio virus

Question 18

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

Answer

Hepatitis B

Answer

Common cold

Question 19

19. Which viral disease is sexually transmitted?

Question 20

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

Answer

Common cold

Answer

Hepatitis B

Question 21

21. The protein coat of a virus is called:

Question 22

22. Which type of virus causes cervical cancer?

Question 23

23. Viruses are classified on the basis of:

Answer

Number of ribosomes

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Type of nucleic acid

Answer

Shape and size only

Question 24

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

Answer

Reverse transcriptase

Answer

RNA polymerase

Answer

DNA polymerase

Question 25

25. Which of the following best describes HIV?

Answer

Non-infectious virus

Answer

RNA virus with reverse transcriptase

Answer

Plant virus

Question 26

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

Answer

Chickenpox

Question 27

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

Answer

Dmitri Ivanovsky

Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 28

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

Answer

Tuberculosis

Question 29

29. The function of reverse transcriptase is to:

Answer

Convert DNA into RNA

Answer

Convert protein into DNA

Answer

Convert RNA into DNA

Answer

Replicate DNA

Question 30

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

Answer

Sexual contact and blood

Answer

Insect bites

Answer

Contaminated food

Question 31

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

Answer

Lipid membrane

Answer

Peptidoglycan

Question 32

32. Viruses that infect plants are usually:

Answer

Retroviruses

Answer

RNA viruses

Answer

Bacteriophages

Answer

DNA viruses

Question 33

33. Which virus infects bacteria?

Answer

Retrovirus

Answer

Baculovirus

Answer

Orthomyxovirus

Answer

Bacteriophage

Question 34

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

Answer

Viral genome

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Viral protein only

Answer

Viral toxin

Answer

Complete, infectious virus particle

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Answer

Protein coat

Answer

Nucleic acid

Question 37

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

Question 38

38. Viruses are inactive:

Answer

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 39

39. 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 crystalline form

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Are in water

Question 40

40. Which virus leads to the disease AIDS?

Question 41

41. What shape is the tobacco mosaic virus?

Answer

Icosahedral

Question 42

42. Which virus affects the liver?

Answer

Polio virus

Answer

Hepatitis virus

Question 43

43. Viruses multiply by:

Answer

Binary fission

Answer

Fragmentation

Answer

Host-directed replication

Question 44

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

Answer

Capsomeres

Question 45

45. Who discovered the first virus?

Answer

Edward Jenner

Answer

Martinus Beijerinck

Answer

Robert Hooke

Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 46

46. The AIDS virus primarily targets:

Answer

Red blood cells

Answer

Helper T-cells

Question 47

47. The genetic material of a virus can be:

Answer

Either DNA or RNA, but not both

Answer

Both DNA and RNA in the same virus

Question 48

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

Answer

Several years

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Immediate symptoms

Answer

2–4 months

Answer

1–2 weeks

Question 49

49. The core of a virus contains:

Answer

Mitochondria

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DNA or RNA

Question 50

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