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Virus causing AIDS has
  1. Single strand DNA
  2. Double strand DNA
  3. Single strand RNA
  4. Double strand RNA

A
Double strand RNA
B
Single strand RNA
C
Double strand DNA
D
Single strand DNA
Solution
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AIDS virus is HIV, human immunodeficiency virus belongs to retrovirus which has single-stranded RNA as a genetic material. It mainly attacks the immune system. It directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells.
Therefore, the correct is option C.

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