Q: Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a) Viruses can infect
b) bacteria
c) fungi
d) plants
The correct answer is 1, 2 and 3.
Viruses
- It can infect almost any kind of host that has living cells.
- Animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria etc. can get infected by a virus.
- It can replicate only inside the living cells of an organism.
- Viruses infect all types of life forms.
- A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within a bacterium.Â
- Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi.
- A host of other Viruses affect plants.
- Viruses are diverse. They vary in their structure, their replication methods, and in their target hosts or even host cells.
- While most biological diversity can be understood through evolutionary history, such as how species have adapted to conditions and environments, much about virus origins and evolution remains unknown.
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