Gujarati
Hindi
7.Human Health and Disease
normal

Infectious proteins are present in

A

gemini viruses

B

prions

C

viroids

D

satellite viruses.

(AIPMT-2010)

Solution

(b) : Prions are named by Stanley Prusiner (got Nobel Prize in $1997$). Prions are infectious agents which are made of proteins only (without nucleic acid). Prions are the causal agents of scrapie disease of sheep.

Standard 12
Biology

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