All of the following are components of Dane Paicle except -: (A) Surface antigen, (B) Core antigen, (C) C-antigen, (D) Delta antigen
Answer is D. Complete hepatitis B virus or Dane paicle -consist of outer envelope inner core. The genome has a 4 overlapping genes -S gene C gene P gene and X gene. REF:ANANTHANARAYAN AND PANIKER'S TEXTBOOK OF MICROBIOLOGY 9TH EDITION PAGE NO:543 and 544