Viruses, Viroids and Prions
Viruses, Viroids and Prions: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Prions, Obligate Parasites, Destructive Parasites, Viruses, Classification of Viruses, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Bacteriophage, Viroids, etc.
Important Questions on Viruses, Viroids and Prions

Tobacco mosaic virus is a tubular filament of size

Which one of the following statements about viruses is correct?

Cauliflower mosaic virus contains:

Enzymes are absent in


Influenza virus has –

Viruses that infect bacteria, multiply and cause their lysis, are called –

Which of the following statements is not true for retroviruses?

Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) genes are -

Genetic material of TMV is:

The Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was crystallized for first time by

Each capsomere of TMV contain amino acids whose number is

Leaf extract from an infected plant was passed through a filter with a pore size of diameter. The infectious agent was detected in the filtrate. Which ONE of the following is the likely infectious agent?

The genome of is composed of

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease is a transmissible disease caused by a

Which one of the following statements is true about viruses?

Assertion (A): DNA from Bacteriophage head passes through tail core through plasma membrane and enters bacterial cell.
Reason (R): Plasma membrane of the host cell gets dissolved due to lysozyme and releases the new virions.

In the Bacteriophage the arrangement of its parts (Top to bottom) are as follow:
I. Head containing
II. Sheath
III. Collar
IV. Tail fibres
V. Base plate
The correct sequence is:

Match the following lists:
List - I | List - II | ||
(A) | ![]() |
(I) | Lambda phage |
(B) | ![]() |
(II) | |
(C) | ![]() |
(III) | Adenovirus |
(D) | ![]() |
(IV) | |
(V) | Bacteriophage |
The correct match is
