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Virus
Term | Definition |
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Vaccines | treatment used to prevent viruses |
Vaccination | a weakened or dead virus to stimulate the body to attack the virus if it enters the body again |
common cold, influenza, warts(HPV), HIV(AIDS), chicken pox | Caused by types of viruses |
lysogenic cycle | the virus does not immediately kill the host cell but inserts viral DNA into host DNA and will eventually become harmful |
lytic cycle | rapidly kills the host cell and new viruses are released |
host cell | a virus can only reproduce inside of this |
bacteriophage | virus that infects bacteria |
nucleic acid | DNA or RNA |
virus | non-living made up of a protein coat and nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) |
antibiotics | used to kill bacteria; cannot be used on viruses |
Capsid | The protein based coat around the nucleic acid core of the virus |
Viral Envelope | Lipid based outer covering found on some viruses |