Viruses
Reverse transcriptase is a useful enzyme to have when

spikes are forming in the new virus
there are no host cells present
nutrients are scarce
an RNA virus converts its RNA to DNA

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Viruses
Which of the following statements is not true of viruses?

All viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites
Viruses have been successfully grown in pure cultures in test tubes
Viruses probably arose from small fragments of cellular chromosomes
All viruses have either DNA or RNA as their genetic material

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Viruses
The function of a viral capsid is

providing binding sites that enable the virus to attach to specific receptor sites on the host cell
All of these
protection against the viral genome from physical and enzymatic destruction
serving as a vehicle of transmission from one host to another

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