Quiz_Viruses

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

 
 
 
 

2. Virus and bacteriophage are made-up of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

5. Infective part of virus was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

7. Detailed study of bacteriophage was made by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

10. Enzymes are absent in:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

13. The lambda phase is a:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

17. Interferon is a:

 
 
 
 

18. First animal pathogenic virus was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

20. In a bacteriophage, DNA is present in:

 
 
 
 

21. Which of the following is true for viruses?

 
 
 
 

22. The truncated cone of HIV consists of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

24. Bacteria differ from viruses in being sensitive to:

 
 
 
 

25. Viruses are commonly transmitted in plants through:

 
 
 
 

26. Who among the following discovered virus?

 
 
 
 

27. Bacteriophage consists of:

 
 
 
 

28. Who discovered cyanophages?

 
 
 
 

29. Kuru, a human disease is caused by:

 
 
 
 

30. Cyanophage is a virus that attacks:

 
 
 
 

31. Longest known virus is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

34. 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:

 
 
 
 

35. Number of capsomeres forming capsid of TMV is:

 
 
 
 

36. Which is an exception to cell theory?

 
 
 
 

37. Viruses have:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

39. Viruses are considered to be:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

41. TMV was isolated in crystalline form by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

43. Virion refers to:

 
 
 
 

44. In Herpes virus DNA is:

 
 
 
 

45. What is a vector?

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

47. 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:

 
 
 
 

48. Smallpox is caused by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

50. The genetic material of poxvirus is:

 
 
 
 

51. The first to isolate a plant virus was:

 
 
 
 

52. Bacteriophages have been used as:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

54. Who named prion?

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

56. Genetic material of TMV is:

 
 
 
 

57. Viroids have: