Plants are able to defend themselves against viruses that have invaded their cells by:

A. producing antibodies.
B. recognizing and interrupting viral RNA
replication.
C. causing the virus to detach from the cell
membrane before it injects its RNA.
D. producing sticky proteins on the cell
surface that capture the viruses.
E. increasing the number of plasmodesmata
per cell.


B

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