Question

1. Which of the following would NOT be a manifestation of a viral attack on cells?

A) cells going into apoptosis

B) cell transformation

C) cell fusion

D) cell lysis

E) cell clumping

2. Some viruses do not cause any apparent permanent damage at all to cells they infect.

True or False?

3. The term nucleocapsid refers to the complex of the nucleic acid and the protein shell of the virus.

True or False?

Answer 1

1. E (Cell clumping)

As apoptosis ,cell fusion,cell lysis and cell transformation are all found to be present during viral attack on the cell.

2. Yes it is true that some virus does not cause any permanent damage to the cells they infect as in abortive viral infection and productive viral infection .In both the infection type virus just infect and live without. Causing and harm and damage to the cell

3. Yess it is true that the combination of nucleic acid and capsid(protein shell) is calles as nucleocapsid.