7.  It is possible to insert the DNA from one virus (virus A) into the protein coat of a different virus (virus B). If such a composite virus infected a cell, the resultant viruses produced in the host cell would have DNA like virus ____ and protein like ______.

a.  A;B       b.   A;A        c.  B;B         d.  B;A

Since it is the DNA of virus A that contains the information for making new viral particles that gets inside the cell, the cell would produce viruses that had characteristics of virus A.

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