Question

Given below are two statements: 
• [Statement (I):] Tobacco mosaic virus is a rod shaped virus that contains RNA as nucleic acid. 
• [Statement (II):] RNA in the tobacco mosaic virus is double stranded. 
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. 
 

• A. Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are correct.
• B. Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are incorrect.
• C. Statement (I) is correct but Statement (II) is incorrect.
• D. Statement (I) is incorrect but Statement (II) is correct.

Hint:

Remember that TMV was the very first virus to be discovered (by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892) and the first to be crystallized (by Wendell Stanley in 1935), which earned Stanley a Nobel Prize.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C