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Virus Life Cycle
Practice Test Questions
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Free review questions to help students better understand this topic.
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Virus Life Cycle Sample Test Questions
The following questions, from the Virtual Microbiology Classroom, are designed to help students better understand this topic. All questions are based on material that can be found on the Virus Life Cycle Lecture Main Page.
1. When a virus invades a bacterium, gets that bacterial cell to make more copies of the virus that eventually burst out of and kill that same bacterial cell, this is called...
a. lysogeny
b. lytic replication
c. murder
d. a prion
2. The intracellular state of a bacteriophage consists of...
a. a capsid
b. protein
c. nucleic acid
d. amino acid
e. carbohydrate
3. In the last stage of lytic replication the viruses exit the cell by...
a. exocytosis
b. endocytosis
c. bursting out of the cell
d. waiting for the cell to divide
4. Which of the following is an acellular infectious agent?
a. bacteria
b. virus
c. MRSAd. Fungi
e. Giardia
5. Lysogeny is:
a. when new viruses burst out of a bacterial cell
b. when a membrane-bound virus enters a eukaryotic cell
c. when viral genetic material is duplicated through division of the bacterial host
d. when prions influence the shape of normal proteins, making them pathogenic
6. Which is NOT a method by which animal viruses can enter a host cell?
a. diffusion
b. endocytosis
c. membrane fusion
d. direct penetration of naked virus
7. Which is a method by which animal viruses can exit a host cell?
a. exoctosis
b. lysis
c. budding
d. inversion
e. a, b, and c
8. Viruses are capable of growth and division.
a. True
b. False
9. Another name for a virus that is in the extracellular state is...
a. viroid
b. prophage
c. virion
d. prion
e. animal virus
10. What is the correct order for how a virus makes more viruses through infecting a host cell?
#1 infect
#2 release
#3 attach
#4 replicate
a. 1, 2, 3, 4
b. 4, 3, 2, 1
c. 1, 3, 2, 4
d. 3, 1, 4, 2
e. 3, 4, 1, 2
Page last updated 5/2012
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