a.
To explain:
The reason that it is ruled out that a novel microbes in the laboratory possesses two types of
Introduction:
Virus is defined as the nonliving infectious agent that is able to use the cell machinery to multiply inside the host cell. After infection, host cell produces thousands of identical copies of viruses which can infect other non infected organisms. A virus can contain RNA or DNA as nucleic acid.
b.
To describe:
The nucleic acid configuration of a positive sense RNA virus and also to explain the reason that its multiplication cycle is a less complex than that of a retrovirus.
Introduction:
Virus is defined as the nonliving infectious agent that is able to use the cellular machinery of the host to multiply inside them. After infection, host cell produces thousands of identical copies of viruses which can infect other non infected organisms. A virus can contain RNA or DNA as nucleic acid.
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