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Microbiology

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Adsorption   attachment process--virus sticks to the surface of the host cell  
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Attachment factor   (key)host cell receptor and attachment coponents--lock & key in which the key can only recognize cell types that carry the correct lock  
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Bacteriophage   bacterial viruses--cause a hole in the layer of bacteria in a petri dish by killing the bacteria  
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Capsid   protien coat of a virus-  
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Capsomere   protein subunits of a capsis--  
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Carcinogenic   viruses that induce or generate cancer  
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Cell killing   when cells are killed by virus growth in an area  
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Cytopathic effects   clinical specimen collected--placed on human cells in a tissue culture and watch for changes in the cell--(CPE)  
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Enveloped virus   virus with an envelope--most nucleocapsids are icosahedral/helical  
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Glycoprotein   surface protein of virion--has a specific attachment site--binds to specific receptor on types of cells the virus infects  
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Host factory   supply enzymes and building blockes to propagate new virions--viruses can't produce their own energy for growth  
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Inclusion bodies   microscopically observable dark areas of virus particles that accumuate on culture dish  
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Luekemias   (leuko--white)--cancers in cells that freely move around normally occur in white blood cells  
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Lyse   lytic viruses--break open the cell  
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Lysogens   DNA of DNA viruses integrate into host cell DNA--divide with the cell but lyse the cell under certain conditions--(proviruses)--have potential to become lytic  
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Naked virus   viruses without an envelope--most nucleocapsids are icosahedral/helical  
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Nucleocapsid   nucleic acid plus the protein coat of a virus  
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Obligate intracellular parasites   incapable of growing outside a host cell  
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plaque   area with no living cells--observed as a hole in the cell layer--info is useful in lab--plaques on a dish can be counted to quantify # of virions in a sample  
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Provirus   (lysogens)--have the potential to become lytic--DNA of DNA viruses integrate into host cell DNA--divide with the cell--can lyse the cell under certain conditions  
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Receptor   cell types that carry the correct lock for attachment factor of viruses  
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Retrovirus   exception to general viruses--carry out transcription in reverse--carry 2 copies of the RNA genome  
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Reverse transcriptase   (RT)--RNA dependent DNA polymerase--uses viral RNA as template to produce duplex DNA copy--integrated into the host chromosome--host transcription/translation machinery can express the viral genes  
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Round up   host cells no longer adhere tightly to the bottom of the tissue culture dish--can be seen with microscope  
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Syncytia formation   viruses that cause cells to fuse together into giant cells  
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Transformation   type of CPE where tumor cells keep growing until piles of cells are visible in the dish--same mechanism involved when tumor cells grow uncontrollably or metastasize  
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Tumor   a solid or tissue cancer  
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Tumorigenesis   viruses that induce tumors--  
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virions   complete virus particles  
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Virus   simplest organism on Earth--contain 2-50 genes--can't code for all molecular biology processes-translation which requires 90 genes--can't produce their own energy for growth  
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Virus particle   any virus with its appropriate coating layer--virion--refer to physical structures--viruses aren't cells--nucleic acid may be DNA/RNA not both--nucleic acid may be single/double stranded--  
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