Chapter 16 Self Quiz: Prokaryotes: The First Single-Celled Creatures

  1. A bacterial virus is called a(n)
    1. viroid (wrong)
    2. plasmid (wrong)
    3. plastid (wrong)
    4. phage (correct)
    5. interferon (wrong)
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  2. An HIV virus particle may contain the following EXCEPT
    1. DNA (correct)
    2. RNA (wrong)
    3. enzymes (wrong)
    4. envelope (wrong)
    5. capsid (wrong)
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  3. HIV is a retrovirus that possesses the enzyme
    1. DNA polymerase (wrong)
    2. RNA polymerase (wrong)
    3. reverse transcriptase (correct)
    4. DNA ligase (wrong)
    5. primase (wrong)
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  4. HIV uses which enzyme to cut viral proteins into mature forms?
    1. reverse translatase (wrong)
    2. reverse transcriptase (wrong)
    3. integrase (wrong)
    4. disintegrase (wrong)
    5. protease (correct)
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