Monopartite
{{Short description|Class of viral genome}}
Monopartite refers to the class of genome that is presented in the genome of the virus. As opposed to multipartite, viruses composed of monopartite genomes have a single molecule of nucleic acid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc411/viral-genome-structures-lecture-and-overheads.pdf|title=Viral Genome Organization: A General Overview|publisher=NDSU|date=September 2004|last=McClean|first=Phil|access-date=19 May 2021}} Most dsDNA viruses are monopartite.