Q. Consider the following statements:
1.Viruses are capable of surviving and remaining infective in deep ocean waters.
2.Certain viruses, known as bacteriophages, specifically target and infect bacterial cells.
3.Viruses can manipulate the cellular transcriptional machinery of a host to replicate their own genome.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer: C
Notes:
Explanation:
- Statement 1 is correct: Marine viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the ocean.
- Statement 2 is correct: Bacteriophages are viruses that eat bacteria.
- Statement 3 is correct: Viruses lack their own machinery; they hijack the host’s transcription and translation systems to produce viral proteins.
