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Q.What is ICTV? How are viruses named?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →ICTV = International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses; it classifies and names viruses using ranks such as family (-viridae), subfamily (-virinae) and genus (-virus), based on characters like host, disease, shape and nucleic acid.
ICTV stands for the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. It is the authority that lays down the rules for the classification and nomenclature of viruses, so that virus names are used uniformly all over the world.
Naming of viruses:
- Viruses are named on the basis of characters such as the host they infect, the disease they cause, their shape/structure, the type of nucleic acid, or the place where they were first discovered.
- The ICTV places viruses into taxonomic categories: order, family, subfamily, genus and species. …
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