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Biology 1- Viruses

Viruses vocab and questions

QuestionAnswer
Virulent when a virus causes a disease
Temperate if a virus does not cause a disease immediately
Obligate restricted to a particular lifestyle
Intracellular occurring inside the cell
Parasite an organism that lives in or on the body of another organism
Shape of viruses polyhedron
a virus can only reproduce inside a _____ host cell
viruses are classified on the basis of thier ____ DNA or RNA
antibodies proteins in the blood and body fluids that help the body fight off disease causing agents
bacteriophage one of several kinds of viruses that can destroy bacteria
filterable Viruses capable of passing through pores which bacteria cannot
host cell any cell that is attacked by a virus
lyse a term that means to break open
lytic cycle the fundamental reproductive process in viruses
temperate phage a virus that can infect a cell without causing an immediate destruction
What is the tail of a bacteriophage specialized for? injecting the viral nucleic acid into a host cell
Viruses and cells are alike in that they both ____. reproduce
5 diseases caused by viruses warts, common cold, bronchitis, small pox, AIDS
In Latin, the word virus means ____ poison
prion abnormal forms of proteins that clump together inside a cell which result in the destruction of the cell
viroid they are a short single strand of RNA with no surrounding capsid that cause disease in plants
How is ebola transmitted? by direct contact
viroids differ from viruses in their _____ absence of a capsid
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