Quiz  /  NEET MCQ on Prions

  • 1. 
    Neurodegenerative diseases such as mad cow and Kuru diseases are caused by infectious particles known as

  • coronavirus
  • viroids
  • retrovirus
  • prions

  • 2. 
    This is not a prion disease

  • Scrapie
  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Creutzfeldt Jakob disease

  • 3. 
    In human cells, this is the first virus to be cultured

  • HIV
  • Influenza virus
  • Dengue virus
  • Polio virus

  • 4. 
    What causes scrapie in sheep?

  • Proteins
  • Viroid
  • Prion
  • Virion

  • 5. 
    ___________ is a protein having partial with no detachable nucleic acid

  • Proteins
  • Viroid
  • Prions
  • Virion

  • 6. 
    _____________ are the naked RNA strands infecting plants

  • prions
  • RNA viruses
  • viroids
  • retroviruses

  • 7. 
    What is the other name for Bovine spongiform encephalopathy?

  • Kuru disease
  • Mad cow disease
  • Mad dog disease
  • Sheep’s disease

  • 8. 
    What is the latent viral DNA contained in the host DNA referred to as?

  • invader
  • prion
  • prophage
  • viroid

  • 9. 
    In sheep, this disease characterizes pneumonia and demyelination

  • Scrapie
  • Measles
  • Pneumonia
  • Visna

  • 10. 
    Lack of coordination and muscle twitching in a disease takes place due to this prion

  • Tetanus
  • Cancer
  • Kuru disease
  • Marasmus
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