You are working in a laboratory that is studying a newly isolated virus.Your job is to culture the virus using in vitro methods.Upon observing your inoculated tissue culture specimen one day, you notice clumps of cells growing on top of the original monolayer of cells.Microscopic analysis of stained cells from the culture reveal an alteration in host cell membrane protein content and chromosomal structure.Based upon this information, you hypothesize that the virus you are studying is ______.

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The observation of altered host cell membrane protein content and chromosomal structure suggests that the virus is capable of inducing changes in host cells that can lead to cancer. This is a characteristic of oncoviruses, which include viruses such as human papillomavirus (HPV) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV). Bacteriophages infect bacteria, prions are infectious agents that consist only of protein, viroids are infectious RNA molecules, and satellite viruses require a helper virus to replicate. None of these options fit the description of the virus being studied.

You Are Working in a Laboratory That Is Studying a Newly