Monopartite

Monopartite refers to the class of genome that is presented in the genome of the virus. As opposed to multipartite, viruses composed of monopartite genomes have a single molecule of nucleic acid.[1] Most dsDNA viruses are monopartite.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc411/viral-genome-structures-lecture-and-overheads.pdf
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