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Question 1
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Which statement about viruses is NOT correct?
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Viruses can multiply only by using a dividing host cell's machinery.
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Viruses are ubiquitous.
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Virus particles are called virions.
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There is estimated to be around 2000 viruses which affect humans.
Question 2
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Which statements BEST describes viruses?
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Viruses are a diverse group of acellular or 'sub-cellular' particles with no metabolic activity of their own, which rely on the biomachinery of their hosts to reproduce.
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Viruses are very small non-living cells which hijack living cells in order to reproduce copies of themselves.
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Viruses are ubiquitous 'sub-cellular' particles which rely on their hosts to reproduce.
Question 3
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The independent particles of viruses are called [blank_start]virions[blank_end], whose genetic material can be [blank_start]single[blank_end] or double stranded DNA or [blank_start]RNA[blank_end]. This is protected by a protein coat known as a [blank_start]capsid[blank_end].
Viruses with only a capsid are 'naked'. Viruses with an [blank_start]envelope of lipids[blank_end] around this protein coat are 'enveloped'. This envelope of lipids can sometimes have [blank_start]glycoprotein spikes[blank_end].
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virions
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single
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RNA
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capsid
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envelope of lipids
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glycoprotein spikes
Question 4
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Select the statements about viral capsids which are CORRECT.
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Viral capsids are always symmetrical and made of repetitive structures.
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Capsomers and protomers are the sub-units of capsids.
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Protomers are made up of capsomers.
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Capsids can be helical, icosahedral, or complex in shape.
Question 5
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Which order of the steps of the viral life cycle is CORRECT?
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entry, attachment, synthesis, assembly, release
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attachment, entry, assembly, synthesis, release
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attachment, entry, synthesis, assembly, release
Question 6
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Lytic=virulent and lysogenic=latent.
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- True
- False
Question 7
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Bacteriophages are the virions which have a capsid specialised to infect bacterial cells.
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- True
- False
Question 8
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Which statement about bacteriophage replication types is INCORRECT?
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Lysogenic cycles are temperate e.g. can kill the cell or live within it.
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The lytic cycle ends in cell lysing.
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The lytic cycle releases 10-20 virions.
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Lytic and lysogenic cells both inject their DNA into the host cell in order to reproduce.
Question 9
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Which statement BEST describes a prophage?
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A prophage is the phage genome of the bacteriophage, either integrated with the DNA of the Lysogen (bacterium) or floating free in its cytoplasm, able to produce a lytic phage.
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A prophage is the inserted DNA from the bacteriophage which lives inside the host cell, known as the Lysogen.
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The prophage lives in the Lysogen and can become a lytic phage.
Question 10
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Which statement is true?
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Lytic insertion is followed by immediate degradation of host DNA while the lysogenic genome only becomes virulent when induction (environmental stress, UV irradiation) occurs.
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Lytic insertion does not harm the host DNA until the final stage of the lytic cycle.
Question 11
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Retroviruses must use the host cell's machinery, and their own enzyme Reverse Transcriptase, to make DNA from their RNA. An example is HIV.
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- True
- False
Question 12
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Naked viruses enter the cell via receptors (endocytosis). Enveloped viruses fuse their viral envelope with the host's membrane.
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- True
- False
Question 13
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The provirus (DNA of enveloped virus in host genome) is virulent.
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- True
- False
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