A common polyhedral capsid shape of viruses is a……..
a) icosohedron
b) pentagon
c) cube
d) pyramid
Phage tail structure of a bacteriophage is more complex than its…..
a) body
b) head
c) tentacles
d) spikes
The filamentous bacteriophage infects male E. coli cells by attaching to……..
a) the tip of the pilus
b) the cell wall
c) the cell membrane
d) lipopolysaccharide
A/an ……….is specifically able to have a long term relationship with the host known as lysogeny.
a) DNA phage
b) RNA phage
c) virion
d) temperate virus
For uncoating viruses use…….
a) specific receptors
b) viropexia
c) lysozymes
d) the machinery of the host
In the lytic cycle of bacteriophage, the host DNA is…….
a) turn off by the protein coat
b) replicated
c) turn on by the removal of protein coat
d) digested into its nucleotides
