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Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) genome is...

Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) genome is

A

double stranded RNA

B

single stranded RNA

C

polyribonucleotides

D

proteinaceous

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B
(b) Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) is elongated, rod shaped, most thoroughly studied plant virus, with 95% protein and 5% RNA by weight. RNA is genomic, i.e. genetic material which is single stranded, linear, helically coiled, 5 mu in length with 6500 nucleotides long.
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