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Biology chapter 19
section 2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Virus | particle made up of nucleic acid, protein, and in some cases lipids that can replicate only by infecting cells |
| Capsid | outer protein coat of a virus |
| Bacteriophage | virus that infects bacteria |
| Lytic infection | process in which a virus enters a cell, makes a copy of itself, and causes the cell to burst |
| Lysogenic infection | process by which a virus embeds its DNA into the DNA of the host cell and is replicated along with the host cell’s DNA |
| Prophage | the viral DNA that is embedded the host cell’s DNA |
| Retrovirus | virus that contains RNA as its genetic information |