Questions:

Q1. Short incubation period and no animal reservoir are some of the viral characteristics of poxvirus that made its __________ possible.

Q2. Pox virus is a DNA virus with a core containing ___________ on both sides.

Q3. Replication of poxvirus occurs in ___________.

Q4. _____________ acts as host cell receptor in most of the poxviruses.

Q5. Monkey pox virus is a ______________ disease.

Q6. In poxviruses more than 50 % of _________ are transcribed before replication and late genes are transcribed after the completion of DNA replication.

Q7. Poxvirus is present in extra and __________ cellular forms.

Q8. Intracellular form of pox virus contains single _________ and hence called as intracellular envelope virion.

Q9. Extracellular form of poxvirus contains ___________ envelopes and is called as extracellular envelope virion.

Q10. Poxvirus is an ___________ virus.

Q11. In pox virus essential genes are located at the ____________of the genome while non – essential genes lie towards the ends.

 

Answers:

• 1.  Eradication

  2.  Lateral bodies

  3.  Cytoplasm

  4.  Epidermal growth factor

  5.  Zoonotic

  6.  Early genes

  7.  Intra

  8.  Envelope

  9.  Two

  10.  Enveloped

  11.  Centre