Discussion
Compared with large enveloped viruses, small naked viruses such as poliovirus are generally
Answer: C
A naked virion is a protein shell around nucleic acid with no fragile lipid membrane, so it tolerates drying, detergents and solvents orders of magnitude better than an enveloped virus does. That is why lipid solvents inactivate herpesviruses readily but not polioviruses.
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