Exam 13: Viruses, Viroids, and Prions

To give more information on virus replication strategies, you explain to your friend the difference between a DNA virus and a RNA virus in terms of replication. You tell him that

The family to which the Rhinovirus belongs is the

During attachment of phage to E. coli, the phage

Viruses are not cultivated in

All viruses must separate the nucleic acid from the capsid before replication.

For which of the following processes are enzymes not required?

Would you expect the number of virions to be the same if you measured them by the plaque assay or by counting using the electron microscope? Why?

The common species name of the virus is frequently based on the

Filamentous phages

In the case of T-even phages, the burst size is about

A phage that replicates inside the host cell and then lyses its host during its release is a

The replicative form of nucleic acid in filamentous phages is

The integration of phage DNA into the bacterial chromosome occurs because of

Enveloped viruses

Transduction often involves defective virus.

Viroids cause disease in

Viruses are commonly referred to by their ________ name.

Which statement(s) about cells taken from a tumor is/are true?

An exit method used by viruses that does not immediately destroy the host bacterium is

Which of the following is NOT true of prions?