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Which of the following scientist's contributions to viruses is correctly matched?

I. M.W. Beijerinek demonstrated that the extract of the infected plants of tobacco mosaic could cause infection in healthy plants and called the fluid as contagium vivum fluidum (infectious living fluid).
II. W.M. Stanley showed that viruses could be crystallized and crystals consist largely of proteins.
III. The name virus that means venom or poisonous fluid was given by Dmitri Ivanowsky.

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Important Questions on Five Kingdom Classification

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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease CJD is a transmissible disease caused by a
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The proteinaceous infectious particle which can cause some serious animal diseases are called:
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The concept of "Contagium vivum fluidum" was given by
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Which of the following statements is wrong for viroids?
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Identify the parts labelled 1,2,3,4 in the given figure

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Identify the correct statements among the following.
(A) No virus contains both DNA and RNA.
(B) Viroids were named by Pasteur.
(C) Scrapie disease of sheep is caused by proteins.
(D) In the six kingdom classification three domains are present.
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Select the incorrect statement with reference to structure of TMV ?
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Match the following lists:

  List I   List II
A) No sex organs, dikaryotic exogenous spores I) Gonyaulax
B) Infectious agents without nucleic acids II)  Trichodesmium
C) Differentiated cytoplasm bloom in polluted water bodies III) Slime moulds
D) Fruiting bodies bearing spores survive many years IV) Basidiomycetes
    V) Prions

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Assertion (A): Bacteriophages have the ability to replicate within bacterial cells.
Reason (R): Bacterial plasmids have very high copy numbers of their genome in the bacterial cells.
The correct option among the following is:
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T. O. Diener 1971 discovered a new infectious agent that was smaller than vinses. Consider the following statements about this infectious agent.
(i) It causes potato spindle tuber disease
(ii) These are infections RNA particles
(iii) It lacks the protein coat
(iv) The molecular weight of its RNA is low
The above statements are assigned to
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Which of the following shows coiled RNA strand and capsomeres?