You believe that you have isolated a new strain of positive-sense,single-stranded RNA virus and set about studying it in your laboratory.Which of the following lines of evidence would most strongly support your hypothesis that the virus is a [+]ssRNA?

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Positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses can directly use their RNA as mRNA for protein synthesis. If a protease inhibitor stops protein production and virus reproduction, it suggests that the virus relies on protease activity for processing viral proteins, which is consistent with many RNA viruses.

You Believe That You Have Isolated a New Strain of Positive-Sense,single-Stranded