3. Rabies virus genomes are:
A. non-segmented, positive (+) strand RNA
B. non-segmented, negative (-) strand RNA
C. segmented, positive (+) strand RNA
D. segmented, negative (-) strand RNA
E. double stranded DNA
Ans:
B. non-segmented, negative (-) strand RNA.
Explanation: Rabies virus is a type of animal virus that causes rabies in human and animal. The genome contain a single negative (-) strand of genomic DNA whose sequence is complementary to that of the viral mRNA and it is non-segmented ( the genome is all on one single piece of RNA. The genomic RNA act as an template for synthesis of mRNA but doesn't itself encode protein. The rabies virus genome is not positive stranded because it doesn't contain same sequence as that present in mRNA. The genome doesn't the segmented fragment of RNA. Rabies virus genome doesn't contain double stranded DNA.
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