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What part of a virus determine which host the virus infects?

a. receptor molecules
b. plasma membrane
c. surface proteins
d. nucleic acids

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C. Surface proteins.

Viral infection begins when proteins on the surface of a virion bind to specific receptor proteins on the surface of host cells.
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