Virus Quiz

A bacterial entity with a rigid cell wall and tail fibres

A cellular entity with organelles and ribosomes

A plant entity with a mobile lipid bilayer membrane

A non-cellular entity with a protein shell and nucleic acid (correct)

Animal cells have a mobile lipid bilayer membrane and viruses enter via fusion

Plant cells have a mobile lipid bilayer membrane and viruses enter via endocytosis

Animal cells have a rigid cell wall and viruses enter via damaged cell walls

Plant cells have a rigid cell wall and viruses enter via a vector (correct)

Viruses are a result of a single origin event

Viruses descend from free-living organisms, becoming parasitic

Viruses have their origin in self-replicating molecules in the pre-cellular world (correct)

Viruses originate from genetic material escaping from genomes of larger organisms