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Biology & Life Science
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Is there a certain type of virus morphology that is especially known to cause disease in humans? Explain your reasoning.
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Describe the hypothesis of viruses occurring before living cells and how DNA might have evolved. What is the current hypothesis about the evolutionary relationships between RNA, DNA, viruses, and cellular life?
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Describe how bacteriophages influence the ocean's bacterial populations and nutrient cycling.
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A bacteriophage that lacks its proteinaceous capsid structure is also called a viroid.
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A negative-stranded RNA virus produces a complete positive-stranded RNA virus that serves as template DNA for other proteins in order to replicate the complete negative-stranded RNA genome.
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Due to their indispensible role for copying its genome, an intracellular host protease that attacks the adenoviral protein ends would likely result in halting its replication.
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Many human-infecting viruses that illicit a strong immune response cause additional harmful effects on humans, so the discovery of a virus that can induce an immune response but not cause harm made it attractive for vaccine development.
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Most archaeal viruses identified appear to have DNA genomes.
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Some virus shapes that infect members of Archaea are unique from other viruses that infect eukaryotes and bacteria.
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Knowing the genome of Mu bacteriophage now enables researchers to locate where it incorporates into bacterial genomes.
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By nature of its infectivity, M13 phage can be used in the laboratory to continually propagate a particular DNA sequence inside of Escherichia coli by simply culturing infected E. coli in LB.
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Nonfilamentous bacteriophage often can escape its host without lysing, whereas filamentous phage normally induce cell lysis once replicated inside their host.
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The diversity of genome type and the overall number of bacteriophage that infect Escherichia coli is numerous, but many other bacterial taxa that thrive in the environment are likely infected by a variety of phage as well.
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Bacteriophage that have single-stranded genomes are specialized to minimize energy requirements because just one strand is necessary for replication.
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Due to the genetic diversity of viruses and their lack of ribosomal RNA, nucleotide-based phylogeny studies are not applicable to virology.
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One hypothesis on the origin of DNA points to RNA viruses evolving a modified nucleotide that is insensitive to ribonucleases.
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Despite viruses require a living host's metabolism to replicate, it remains unclear whether viruses existed before living cells.
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Varied transcription mechanisms distinguish the different DNA virus Baltimore classes, whereas varied translational mechanisms distinguish RNA viruses.
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Viruses that contain positive-strand genomes are incompatible to share genetic elements other positive-strand genomes.
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The Baltimore classification scheme is a useful way to categorize viruses based on their host infectivity.
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Genomics analysis of recently isolated viruses indicate some viruses contain larger genomes than the some bacterial genomes.
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To date, no virus that infects Archaea is known to have an RNA genome.
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Viruses are known to infect Bacteria, but no virus has yet been found that infects Archaea.
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Proteins made by a ribosome reading through a transcript's stop codon without their own discrete ribosome binding sites
A) are thought to be a primitive mechanism to avoid host defenses.
B) appear most abundant in archaeal viruses and relatively uncommon in bacteriophage.
C) suggest a relatively low level of protein product is essential for the virus due to its rare frequency.
D) create opportunities for viruses to make different capsid proteins.
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In contrast to positive ssRNA viruses such as coronaviruses and polioviruses, the genome of retroviruses
A) lacks genes encoding for tRNA primers.
B) must first integrate into the host's genome before transcription.
C) is negative ssRNA.
D) lacks ribonuclease activity.
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A drug designed to inhibit reverse transcriptase activity would target
A) coronaviruses and rhabdoviruses.
B) hepadnaviruses and retroviruses.
C) retroviruses.
D) viruses with RNA genomes.
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Identifying proteases being essential for replication of a virus would suggest the virus
A) lyses its host following genome replication.
B) contains at least one polyprotein.
C) has a single-stranded RNA genome.
D) uses at least one set of overlapping genes.
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The family of reoviruses contain dsRNA genomes that replicate from the template of ________ which makes it a ________ replication process.
A) only the positive ssRNA strand / conservative
B) only the positive ssRNA strand / semiconservative
C) both RNA strands /conservative
D) both RNA strands / semiconservative
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To promote the translational activity of ribosomes in human cells for synthesizing viral proteins during viral infection, viruses
A) chemically modify (e.g., cap and methylate) the transcripts.
B) keep a ribosome binding site specific to human ribosomes on their genome.
C) maintain introns and sometimes extrons in their genomes to appear as eukaryotic mRNA.
D) only adhere to and infect metabolically active host cells where protein synthesis is high.
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As a consequence of the immune system in humans recognizing dsRNA as foreign,
A) dsRNA viruses rarely infect humans.
B) dsRNA viruses quickly transcribe their genes into mRNA which is insensitive to immune responses.
C) genomes of RNA viruses are often chemically modified to avoid recognition by human immune cells.
D) the genomes of dsRNA viruses must avoid human immune cells during infection, including replicating their genomes within their own nucleocapsids.
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Among the largest RNA genome viruses are ________ which contain a ________ genome.
A) coronaviruses / dsRNA
B) coronaviruses / positive ssRNA
C) polioviruses / dsRNA
D) polioviruses / positive ssRNA
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What is the purpose of synthesizing a negative strand RNA in positive stranded ssRNA viruses?
A) enable rolling circle amplification of the genome, which requires both strands of RNA
B) enable transcription of genes occurring on both the negative and positive strands of the genome, such as overlapping genes
C) proofreading of the genome to minimize mutations generated by the polymerase being passed onto virion progeny
D) to serve as the complementary template sequence in genome amplification of the positive strand
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Polyproteins made from human viruses such as poliovirus must be ________ in order to yield the required functional units of the virus.
A) able to interact with VPg proteins
B) chemically modified with either glycolation or methylation
C) post-translationally cleaved
D) properly folded into secondary and tertiary structures
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Based on its function, which type(s) of viruses likely contain(s) a gene encoding for RNA replicase?
A) dsDNA and ssDNA viruses
B) positive ssRNA viruses
C) positive and negative ssRNA viruses
D) ssRNA and ssDNA viruses
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What is unusual about phage MS2 infection of Escherichia coli?
A) All proteins are synthesized simultaneously during infection so there are no early and late proteins.
B) It attaches to the host's pilus rather than the cell's surface.
C) It enters through a host cell porin.
D) More than one MS2 phage can be present in an individual E. coli cell.
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Herpesviruses can cause all of the following diseases in humans EXCEPT
A) cancer.
B) chicken pox.
C) cold sores.
D) spongiform encephalopathy.
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Blocking polyomavirus SV40's ability to integrate its genome into host cells would
A) avoid cancer development from the virus.
B) increase the rate of transformation.
C) increase the latent period of SV40.
D) switch SV40 into a lytic lifecycle which would be especially harmful to the host cells.
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Gene therapy viruses are usually constructed from which type of virus?
A) adenoviruses
B) cytomegaloviruses
C) polyomaviruses
D) poxviruses
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The hepadnavirus DNA polymerase acts as which of the following?
A) DNA polymerase
B) reverse transcriptase
C) protein primer for synthesis of a strand of DNA
D) DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase, and protein primer for DNA synthesis
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The unconventional dsDNA genome replication mechanism where no lagging strand exists is a hallmark of which group of viruses?
A) adenoviruses
B) coronaviruses
C) herpes viruses
D) pox viruses
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In designing a drug to inhibit pox viruses, the compound should localize in the host's ________ to be MOST effective.
A) nucleus
B) endoplasmic reticulum
C) cytoplasm
D) Golgi complex
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Spindle-shaped viruses have been shown to infect only
A) Eukarya.
B) Bacteria.
C) Archaea.
D) plants.
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Viruses that infect the hyperthermophilic Archaea tend to contain genomes that are composed of
A) ssDNA.
B) dsDNA.
C) ssRNA.
D) dsRNA.
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What will happen if the Mu repressor is not synthesized?
A) Genome replication will not be able to occur.
B) It will lyse its host.
C) Mu will improperly synthesize its capsid.
D) Transposition will not be possible.
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Reoviruses contain ________ genomes, and their replication occurs within the host's ________.
A) ssDNA / nucleus
B) dsDNA / nucleus
C) ssRNA / cytoplasm
D) dsRNA / cytoplasm
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Unusually shaped viruses, such as lemon-shaped and spindle-shaped, have recently been discovered in
A) Archaea.
B) Bacteria.
C) Archaea and Bacteria.
D) Eukarya.
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Of the phage listed below, which creates mutations in its host genome via transposition?
A) lambda
B) M13
C) Mu
D) T7
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Which feature, if changed, would NOT abolish M13's utility as a cloning vector?
A) ssDNA genome becoming a dsDNA genome
B) loss of genes that make coat proteins
C) replacing the segment of non-coding DNA in its genome with an indispensible gene
D) switch from lysogenic to lytic lifestyle
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Most known plant viruses have ________-strand RNA genomes, because small genomes ________.
A) negative / facilitate cell-to-cell transfer
B) positive / facilitate cell-to-cell transfer
C) negative / interact more readily with host DNA
D) positive / interact more readily with host DNA
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Integration of Mu DNA into the host genome is essential for
A) lytic growth.
B) lysogenic growth.
C) both lytic and lysogenic growth.
D) neither lytic nor lysogenic growth.
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Mu is a ________ virus with a ________ tail.
A) ssRNA / filamentous
B) dsRNA / helical
C) ssDNA / filamentous
D) dsDNA / helical
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The phage Mu
A) has a circular genome.
B) repairs mutations in the host genome.
C) replicates by transposition.
D) has a circular genome, repairs host genome mutations, and can replicate by transposition.
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A concatemer is a
A) combination of two or more repeated nucleotide sequences covalently linked together.
B) complex of RNA-specific polymerases found only in bacteriophages.
C) linker molecule that allows several phages to infect one host.
D) polymeric protein.
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In T7, the proteins that inhibit the host restriction system are synthesized
A) before the entire T7 genome enters the cell.
B) while the T7 genome is entering the cell but before it enters the nucleus.
C) after the T7 genome is completely within the host cytoplasm.
D) in response to the T7 genome binding to the host chromosome.
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How are T7 genes transcribed?
A) Host RNA polymerase is modified to recognize the T7 promoter.
B) Host RNA polymerase directly translates the T7 genes.
C) T7 has its own RNA polymerase, which is packaged in its capsid and injected into the host during infection to transcribe T7 genes.
D) T7 has its own RNA polymerase, which must first be synthesized by the host.
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How could overlapping genes in a positive ssDNA virus genome be predicted?
A) Convert the positive ssDNA into its complementary ssDNA and search for genes in the negative ssDNA strand for sequences used in more than one predicted gene.
B) Directly search the three frames of the positive ssDNA for genes that have sequences where more than one gene is predicted.
C) Convert the positive ssDNA into negative ssDNA and search all six possible frames for genes that use part of the same sequence.
D) Convert the positive ssDNA into its complementary ssDNA and search for genes in the negative ssDNA strand that also share a complementary gene in the positive strand.
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The filamentous DNA phages are unusual, because they
A) are released from the host without the host being lysed.
B) have linear genomes.
C) replicate without a host.
D) are released from the host without being lysed and have linear genomes.
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If the hypothesis stating viruses evolved prior to living organisms on Earth is true, the first type of viruses in the world were likely
A) bacteriophage.
B) DNA viruses.
C) retroviruses.
D) RNA viruses.
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Which type of viruses can be directly used for translation?
A) dsRNA
B) negative ssRNA
C) positive ssRNA
D) retroviruses
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Early and late viral proteins are classified according to their relative
A) evolutionary appearance in virus genomes.
B) stability during infection.
C) time of synthesis following host infection.
D) transmission into virions.
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The Baltimore Scheme to classify viruses contains a total of ________ groups based on ________.
A) four / genome composition
B) four / genome composition and transcription mechanism
C) seven / genome composition
D) seven / genome composition and transcription mechanism
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Which type of viruses generally has the smallest genome?
A) bacteriophage
B) DNA viruses
C) RNA viruses
D) viroids
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Ocean and lake water typically contain 107 virions/mL. Does this mean that swimming in or drinking this water will make you sick? Why or why not? How do these viruses impact human and environmental health?
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Predict the properties of viral populations in the human colon given that the colon contains a very high concentration of rapidly dividing bacteria. Predict as many viral properties as you can with this information.
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Propose a unique target for a drug that would inhibit replication of retroviruses in humans.
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Viruses variously depend on their host cell for parts of the viral replication and maturation process. Many viruses do however encode for some enzymes that facilitate certain steps or virus-specific processes for viral replication and maturation. Which cellular processes and enzymes do ALL viruses lack and must therefore ALWAYS be supplied by the host cell?
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Explain why some viruses contain enzymes within the virion and others do not. Use specific examples to support your answer.
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Why do scientists believe that most of the unexplored genetic diversity on Earth resides in viral genomes? Why is this genetic diversity important to human society?
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Influenza is an acute human viral disease that causes brief cellular damage followed by healing and complete clearing of the virus from the body. Hepatitis C is a chronic viral disease that causes slow destruction of tissue and persistent virions that are not completely cleared. Which of these diseases is more likely to be caused by lytic virus and which is caused by a lysogenic virus?
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Describe the establishment and maintenance of the lysogenic state in the lambda phage.
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T4 and other bacteriophages commonly use a method of DNA replication and packaging called "headful packaging." Explain how viral genomes are replicated and packaged in this process and hypothesize how headful packaging might affect evolution of BOTH the bacteriophages and their prokaryotic hosts.
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Why was the discovery of retroviruses important to the field of molecular biology?
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Relate the structure of bacteriophages and animal viruses to the structure of their respective host cells and the steps of the viral life cycle.
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Compare and contrast a typical bacterial growth curve and a viral one-step growth curve. Explain why the growth curves are different based on bacterial and viral replication.
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How does plating efficiency affect the number of plaque-forming units? How is plating efficiency calculated?
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What are the potential advantages of lysogeny compared to lysis for a temperate virus?
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Compare and contrast the structure, life cycle, and host cell type of naked and enveloped viruses.
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Explain the relationship between the terms virus particle, virion, and virus genome.
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RNA replicase is found in ALL viruses to allow the replication and transcription of viral RNA instead of host RNA.
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The latent phase in the viral growth curve and the lag phase of the bacterial growth curve are equivalent and represent the time it takes for the virus or bacterium to adapt to the culture conditions and begin growing.