Negative-Sense, Single-Stranded RNA Viruses Are Thought to Have Arisen Many

question 126

Multiple Choice

Negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses are thought to have arisen many times independently, because

• A) nucleotide sequences show that the single-stranded RNA viruses are not closely related.
• B) they have diverse capsid morphology.
• C) they cause many human diseases, including measles, mumps, and rabies.
• D) they have only a few genes.
• E) there are no known fossils of them.

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