Exam 9: Viral Genomes and Diversity

By nature of its infectivity,M13 phage can be used in the laboratory to continually propagate a particular DNA sequence inside of Escherichia coli by simply culturing infected E.coli in LB.

The Baltimore Scheme to classify viruses contains a total of ________ groups based on ________.

If the hypothesis stating viruses evolved prior to living organisms on Earth is true,the first type of viruses in the world were likely

A negative-stranded RNA virus produces a complete positive-stranded RNA virus that serves as template DNA for other proteins in order to replicate the complete negative-stranded RNA genome.

Of the phage listed below,which creates mutations in its host genome via transposition?

The diversity of genome type and the overall number of bacteriophage that infect Escherichia coli is numerous,but many other bacterial taxa that thrive in the environment are likely infected by a variety of phage as well.

A concatemer is a