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Question
Explain the various types of viruses with examples.
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Solution
Viruses are categorized as:
1. Plant virus: Virus that infect plants, e.g. Tobacco mosaic virus, Cauliflower mosaic virus, Potato virus.
Tobacco mosaic virus

2. Animal virus: Virus that infect animals, e.g. Adenovirus, Retrovirus(HIV), Influenza virus, Poliovirus.
Adenovirus




3. Bacteriophages: Virus that infect bacterial cells, e.g. T4 bacteriophage.

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