Practice question

Viruses exhibit patterns in their genetic material based on their host. The NCERT textbook specifies that viruses infecting plants generally have single-stranded RNA, and those infecting animals have single/double-stranded RNA or double-stranded DNA. However, 'bacteriophages' (viruses infecting bacteria) are definitively and 'usually double-stranded DNA viruses', which they inject directly into the bacterial host cell for replication.