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Virology I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nucleic acid of all DNA viruses except _________ is double-stranded | Parvoviruses |
| Most DNA viruses except ______ replicate in the nucleus | Poxvirus |
| Most RNA viruses replicate in the cytoplasm except ________ | Orthomyxoviruses and HIV |
| Nucleic acid of all RNA viruses is single-stranded except _________ | Reoviruses |
| What makes retrovirsues unique? | Reverse transcriptase enzyme |
| Units of protein surrounding the genome | Capsids |
| These viruses - only contain the virion - stable to temperature, pH and chemicals | Naked Viruses |
| These viruses are more fragile and pleomorphic with a typical bilayered membrane | Enveloped viruses |
| What is the first step of viral replication? | Adsorption/Attachment |
| A glycoprotein that is a part of the outer layer of the virus that fuses with the target cell by binding to CD4 and a chemokine receptor | Envelope glycoprotein GP120 |
| Viruses that infect bacteria | Bacteriophages |
| Ends with destruction of bacterial cell | Lytic cycle |
| DNA remains integrated into the bacterial cell chromosome, generation after generation | Isogenic cycle |
| A bacteriophage that kills the bacteria every infection cycle | Virulent bacteriophage |
| A bacteriophage that displays Isogenic life cycle | Temperate bacteriophage |