Human Health and Diseases Question 111
111. Human immuno deficiency virus (HIV) has a protein coat and a genetic material which is
(a) single stranded DNA
(b) double stranded DNA
(c) single stranded RNA
(d) double stranded RNA
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Answer : c
Hints & Solutions
(c) HIV is a spherical, enveloped virus of about 90-120 nm diameter. Its nucleocapsid is icosahedral and its genome consists of a single-stranded RNA filament segmented into two identical filaments and associated with a “reverse transcriptase enzyme”.
