Practice mode Acellular Life (Viruses)

A complete, infectious virus particle outside a host cell is called a ____.

Correct answer A. virion

Explanation

The virion is the fully assembled extracellular form, with nucleic acid enclosed in a capsid and, in some viruses, an envelope.

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