Quiz_Viruses

1. Smallpox is caused by:

 
 
 
 

2. Kuru, a human disease is caused by:

 
 
 
 

3. First animal pathogenic virus was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

7. Which is an exception to cell theory?

 
 
 
 

8. The genetic material of poxvirus is:

 
 
 
 

9. Detailed study of bacteriophage was made by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

12. Number of capsomeres forming capsid of TMV is:

 
 
 
 

13. Genetic material of TMV is:

 
 
 
 

14. Longest known virus is:

 
 
 
 

15. In a bacteriophage, DNA is present in:

 
 
 
 

16. Viruses are considered to be:

 
 
 
 

17. The lambda phase is a:

 
 
 
 

18. Interferon is a:

 
 
 
 

19. Cyanophage is a virus that attacks:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

21. In Herpes virus DNA is:

 
 
 
 

22. Which of the following is true for viruses?

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

24. Who among the following discovered virus?

 
 
 
 

25. Virus and bacteriophage are made-up of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

27. The truncated cone of HIV consists of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

32. Who discovered cyanophages?

 
 
 
 

33. Viruses are commonly transmitted in plants through:

 
 
 
 

34. What is a vector?

 
 
 
 

35. Enzymes are absent in:

 
 
 
 

36. Virion refers to:

 
 
 
 

37. Infective part of virus was discovered by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

39. The first to isolate a plant virus was:

 
 
 
 

40. Viruses have:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

42. Who named prion?

 
 
 
 

43. 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:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

46. Bacteriophages have been used as:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

49. Viroids have:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

51. 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:

 
 
 
 

52. Bacteria differ from viruses in being sensitive to:

 
 
 
 

53. TMV was isolated in crystalline form by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

56. Bacteriophage consists of:

 
 
 
 

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