You Believe That You Have Isolated a New Strain of Positive-Sense,single-Stranded

Multiple Choice

You believe that you have isolated a new strain of positive-sense,single-stranded RNA virus and set about studying it in your laboratory.Which of the following lines of evidence would most strongly support your hypothesis that the virus is a [+]ssRNA?

A) The virions are diploid.
B) You sequence the bases in both the viral RNA and the mRNA and find them to be antiparallel.
C) Introducing a protease inhibitor causes the virus to stop producing proteins and reproducing.
D) Introducing a reverse transcriptase inhibitor slows down the growth of the virus.