You are working on a Coronavirus project in a lab. Your supervisor wants you to investigate the specificity of an antibody and a protein on the surface of a virus. You found that virus and antibody has complementary shapes. What kind of possible force of attraction between the virus and the antibody could it be? Ionic bond   Covalent bond   van der Waals forces   Hydrogen bonds

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You are working on a Coronavirus project in a lab. Your supervisor wants you to investigate the specificity of an antibody and a protein on the surface of a virus. You found that virus and antibody has complementary shapes. What kind of possible force of attraction between the virus and the antibody could it be?

Ionic bond

 

Covalent bond

 

van der Waals forces

 

Hydrogen bonds

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