Quiz_Viruses

1. AIDS (= Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is caused by:

 
 
 
 

2. The fact that best supports the concept that viruses are living is that viruses:

 
 
 
 

3. The truncated cone of HIV consists of:

 
 
 
 

4. Prions are pathogens that are thought to consist solely of:

 
 
 
 

5. Chrysanthemum stunt disease and potato spindle tuber disease are caused by:

 
 
 
 

6. Which of the following is true for viruses?

 
 
 
 

7. The lambda phase is a:

 
 
 
 

8. Kuru, a human disease is caused by:

 
 
 
 

9. Bacteriophages have been used as:

 
 
 
 

10. Smallpox is caused by:

 
 
 
 

11. RNA particle causing symptoms like that of a virus disease are known as:

 
 
 
 

12. Name the scientist who called viruses as “Contagium vivum fluidum”:

 
 
 
 

13. Cyanophage is a virus that attacks:

 
 
 
 

14. Bacteriophage consists of:

 
 
 
 

15. An infectious agent associated with certain mammalian degenerative disease that is composed solely of protein, is known as:

 
 
 
 

16. The virus responsible for AIDS is an example of a (an):

 
 
 
 

17. Which of the following protein is associated with prion disease?

 
 
 
 

18. Virion refers to:

 
 
 
 

19. A substance (a low molecular weight protein) produced by host cells in response to viral infection, that protects other cells against further viral infection is:

 
 
 
 

20. Enzymes are absent in:

 
 
 
 

21. The genetic material of poxvirus is:

 
 
 
 

22. Infective portion of a virus is nucleic acid, this was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

23. Infective part of virus was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

24. Who discovered cyanophages?

 
 
 
 

25. Detailed study of bacteriophage was made by:

 
 
 
 

26. First animal pathogenic virus was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

27. Viruses are commonly transmitted in plants through:

 
 
 
 

28. Number of capsomeres forming capsid of TMV is:

 
 
 
 

29. The smallest known agent of a plant disease is:

 
 
 
 

30. D.C. Gajdusek was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovery of prion based diseases in:

 
 
 
 

31. In which of the following, RNA is the genetic material?

 
 
 
 

32. Viruses are considered to be:

 
 
 
 

33. TMV was isolated in crystalline form by:

 
 
 
 

34. Longest known virus is:

 
 
 
 

35. Which of the following is correct regarding AIDS causative agent HIV? (NEET 2016)

 
 
 
 

36. Which of the following disease is caused by virus?

 
 
 
 

37. Infective nature of Tobacco mosaic disease was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

38. Virus and bacteriophage are made-up of:

 
 
 
 

39. Who among the following discovered virus?

 
 
 
 

40. Bacteria differ from viruses in being sensitive to:

 
 
 
 

41. Yellow vein Mosaic of Bhindi Virus (Hibiscus Virus-I) is transmitted through:

 
 
 
 

42. Certain enzymes like reverse transcriptase, integrase and protease are found in:

 
 
 
 

43. What is a vector?

 
 
 
 

44. In Herpes virus DNA is:

 
 
 
 

45. Who named prion?

 
 
 
 

46. Interferon is a:

 
 
 
 

47. The site where the protein coat of virus is synthesized is:

 
 
 
 

48. Which is an exception to cell theory?

 
 
 
 

49. In which of the following, RNA is double stranded:

 
 
 
 

50. In order to label the coat alone but not the nucleic acid the bacteriophage should be grown on E. coli cells previously cultured on a medium containing:

 
 
 
 

51. The capsid of TMV is made-up of nearly:

 
 
 
 

52. In a bacteriophage, DNA is present in:

 
 
 
 

53. Genetic material of TMV is:

 
 
 
 

54. The first to isolate a plant virus was:

 
 
 
 

55. Viroids have:

 
 
 
 

56. Viruses have:

 
 
 
 

57. Group of viruses, which attack members of Myxophyceae are termed as: