Given the question: I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "The genome size, and the number of genes it encodes varies widely between organisms. The smallest genomes occur in viruses (which can have as few as 2 protein-coding genes), and viroids (which act as a single non-coding RNA gene). Conversely, plants can have extremely large genomes, with rice containing >46,000 protein-coding genes. The total number of protein-coding genes (the Earth's proteome) is estimated to be 5 million sequences."?
The answer is:
Which has a smaller genome, a virus or a viroid?