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Biology Test 6 (Part - II)
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Hereditary material in TMV is
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ssRNA
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Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) has single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) as its hereditary material. TMV was the first virus to be discovered and serves as a model organism in virology. Its genome consists of positive-sense ssRNA, which can directly act as mRNA for protein synthesis in host cells.