Discussion
A virus with a monopartite genome is one whose genome is
Answer: C
Correct answer: contained in a single molecule of nucleic acid
A monopartite genome is one molecule; a segmented or multipartite one is divided among several. The distinction matters because segmented viruses can reassort - two strains infecting the same cell exchange whole segments - which is how influenza produces the abrupt antigenic shifts that cause pandemics, and which a monopartite virus cannot do.
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