Multiple Choice
According to the Baltimore model, viruses are classified based on which aspect of their life cycle?
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1. Introduction to Microbiology
Acellular Infectious Agents: Viruses, Viroids & Prions
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Which term means 'pertaining to a virus'?
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Viral
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Viroid
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Virion
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Virulence
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Understand the question is asking for the term that means 'pertaining to a virus,' which refers to an adjective describing something related to viruses.
Review the options: 'Viral,' 'Viroid,' 'Virion,' and 'Virulence,' and consider their definitions in microbiology.
'Viral' is an adjective used to describe anything related to or caused by a virus.
'Viroid' refers to a small infectious RNA molecule, not an adjective.
'Virion' is the complete virus particle outside a host cell, and 'Virulence' describes the degree of pathogenicity or severity of a disease caused by a microbe.
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