Monopartite refers to the class of genome that is presented in the genome of the

virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsk ...

. As opposed to

multipartite Multipartite is a class of virus that have segmented nucleic acid genomes, with each segment of the genome enclosed in a separate viral particle. Only a few ssDNA viruses have multipartite genomes, but a lot more RNA viruses have multipartite geno ...

, viruses composed of monopartite genomes have a single molecule of nucleic acid. Most dsDNA viruses are monopartite.

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