Multiple Choice
Which of the following best reflects why viruses must use living cells to reproduce?
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Viruses:
This type of acellular infectious agent is only known to infect plants and is a small, circular, single-stranded nucleic acid molecule.
An infectious protein is known to cause neurodegenerative diseases in humans such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ('mad cow disease'). This type of acellular infectious agent is known as a _________.
Which of the following statements about acellular infectious agents is FALSE?