What organic molecules are found in all viruses? O a. carbohydrates and lipids b

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What organic molecules are found in all viruses? O a. carbohydrates and lipids b. Nucleic acids and carbohydrates c. Proteins and nucleic acids d. Lipids and proteins Check Answer Value: 2 Which of the following referrs to a virus that remains dormant in its host cell indefinitely? [mark all correct answers] a. a host-to-host infection b. a latent infection c. a lytic infection Check Answer Value: 2 The five steps of viral replication are listed below in no particular order. If you were to arrange them in order, what step would come fourth? a. Assembly b. Penetration o O c. Release d. Attachment O e. Synthesis Check Answer

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1. Viruses are very small infectious particles, of about 20-400 nano meters in diameter. Viruses comprise of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), enclosed within a proteinaceous coat or capsid.

Answer: c. Proteins and nucleic acids.

2. Infectious virus particle, may sometime stay as dormant, in case of lysogenic viruses or chronic viral infection. This period is called the latent period.

Answer: b. Latent infection.

3. The five steps of viral replication are:

Answer: a. Assembly.

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