Hypothetically, if a muscle were stretched to the point where thick and thin filaments no longer overlapped,

If the experiment was perfomed more then once and you get the same results

When a virus infects a host cell, it uses the cell's machinery to make copies of its own genetic material in a process called replication. finally, during the process of self-assembly, that protein shell and the copies of the virus's genetic material are assembled into new viruses.