The baltimore system classifies viruses based on the following criteria

a. genome type, polarity, strandness, reverse transcriptase
b. envelope status, polarity, genome type, reverse transcriptase
c. genome type, polarity, strandness, segmentation
d. capsid symmetry, genome type, polarity, strandness


Answer: a. genome type, polarity, strandness, reverse transcriptase

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