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17 Cards in this Set
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What is the protein coat of a virus called? |
Capsid |
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What are produced by our immune system as a response to a viral infection? |
Antibodies |
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The spectrum of cells a virus can infect is considered what? |
Host range |
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What is a virus that only infects bacteria? |
Bacteriophage |
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During ____________, the virus is attaching to the host cell by specific binding. |
Adsorption |
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What are viruses that can alter the host DNA and cause cancer? |
Oncogenic |
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Viruses surrounded by a host cell's plasma membrane are ________________, but those that do not have a membrane surround their capsid are ____________. |
Enveloped; naked |
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In bacteriophage, which term is used to describe when the virus inserts into the chromosome and becomes dormant? What about in animal viruses? |
Lysogeny; latency |
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True or false (if false, create true statement): Viruses are the smallest cells on the planet. |
True (I think) |
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True or false (if false, create true statement): The Pox virus has a large complex capsid structure. |
True |
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True or false (if false, create true statement): Bacteriophages can multiply on their own. |
False, they need a host cell to replicate. |
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True or false (if false, create true statement): Both naked viruses and enveloped viruses have viral spikes on their surface. |
True |
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True or false (if false, create true statement): The spikes on the HIV virus allow it to bind all eukaryotic cells. |
False; They bind to specific receptors and specific eukaryotic cells only. |
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At what stage of the animal viral replication cycle are new viral proteins and RNA made? |
Synthesis |
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Enveloped viruses usually get their envelope from a host cell's what? |
Plasma membrane |
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What are viroids? |
Short pieces of naked RNA |
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Which viral capsid structure consists of a long hollow tube? |
Helical |