A pathogen which cannot be cultured in an artificial medium is
(a) protozoan
(b) virus
(c) bacterium
(d) fungus
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A pathogen which cannot be cultured in an artificial medium is
(a) protozoan
(b) virus
(c) bacterium
(d) fungus
A pathogen which cannot be cultured in an artificial medium is
(a) protozoan
(b) virus
(c) bacterium
(d) fungus
Answer is : (b) virus
Virus cannot be cultured in an artificial medium. It multiples only in living cells. Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites.
They lack metabolic machinery to generate energy or to synthesise proteins, instead they rely on their host cells to carry out these functions