NEET Biology NEET PYQ-Viruses Viroids and Lichens

  • question_answer
    Infectious proteins are present in [AIPMT (S) 2010]

    A) gemini viruses

    B) prions

    C) viroids

    D) satellite viruses

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    [b] Prions have a distinct extracellular form but the extracellular form is entirely protein. The prion particle does not contain any nucleic acid.
    However, it is infectious and prions are known to cause a variety of diseases in animals such as scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (BSE or 'mad cow disease'), chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Kuru and a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. No prion diseases of plants are known.


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