Practice mode Acellular Life (Viruses)

From where does an enveloped animal virus usually obtain the lipid of its envelope?

Correct answer C. From the host cell membrane during budding

Explanation

As progeny viruses bud out of the host cell they wrap themselves in a piece of host membrane, into which virus-coded glycoproteins have been inserted.

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