The terms helical, icosahedral, and complex refer to
A) viral life cycles.
B) forms of nucleic acid.
C) types of viral envelopes.
D) shapes of viruses.
E) types of bacteriophages.

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The terms helical, icosahedral, and complex refer to shapes of viruses. Helical viruses have a coil-like shape, icosahedral viruses have a roughly spherical shape with 20 triangular faces, and complex viruses have irregular shapes with multiple components.

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