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chapter 24

Viruses Azmin Mcdaniels

TermDefinition
virus a non-living particle made up of nucleic acid and a protein coat or nucleic acid and a lipid-protein (lipoprotein)coat.
capsid a protein coat thats the only layer surrounding some viruses.
envelope bilipid membrane that surrounds the capsid.
provirus dna of other dna viruses that inserts into the hosts cells chromosomes.
retrovirus a virus that contains single tranded rna and produces a reverse transcriptase.
reverse transcriptase an enzyme that catalyze the information of dna from an rna template.
bacteriophage a virus that infects bacteria.
lytic cycle a method of virus replication that result in the destruction of a host cell and release of many new virus particles.
virulent describes microorganisms that causes disease and that is highly infectous,refers only to virus that reproduce by lytic cycle.
lysis the disintergration of a cell disruption of the plasma membrane.
lysogenic cycle a method of viral genome is replicated as a provirus without destroying hte host cell.
temperate virus a virus who replication includes the lysogenic cycle.
prophage the viral genome of a bacterophage that has entered a bacterial cell has become attached to the bacterial chromosome and is replicated with the host bacterium's dna
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