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1. Nature and Structure of Viruses

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Tobacco mosaic virus   first virus to be recognized as filterable  
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Foot and mouth disease virus   first filterable animal virus  
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Yellow fever virus   first human virus  
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A. Negri   discovered inclusion bodies of rabies virus  
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P. Rous   first demonstration of a solid tumor virus  
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Rous sarcoma virus   solid tumor virus  
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Bacteriophages   discovered by Twort and d'Herelle  
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A. Woodruff and E. Goodpasture   reported on use of embryonated hen's egg as a host for viruses  
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J. Enders et al   reported that nonneural tissue supports poliovirus replication in culture  
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Knoll and Ruska   invented the electron microscope  
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Dmitri Iwanoski   Tobacco mosaic virus  
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F. Loeffler and P/ Frosch   Foot-and-mouth disease  
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Walter Reed et al.   yellow fever virus  
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Protozoa, fungi, and bacteria - unicellular or multicellular   unicellular  
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Protozoa, fungi, and bacteria possess the equipment for the production of ___   metabolic energy and macromolecules  
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Example of macromolecules   nucleic acids, proteins, polysaccharides, and lipids  
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Viruses are dependen on ____ for functions   their cellular hosts  
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Virus particle is _____ outside a susceptible cell   metabolically inert  
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> 300 nm diameter (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   Bacteria Rickettsia Chlamydophila  
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Obligate intracellular parasite (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   RC Viruses  
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Plasma membrane (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   Bacteria RC  
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Binary fission (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   Bacteria RC  
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Possess both DNA and RNA (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   Bacteria RC  
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Functional ribosomes (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   Bacteria RC  
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ATP-generating metabolism (Bacterial, RC, Viruses)   Bacteria Maybe RC  
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Sensitive to antibiotics   Bacteria RC  
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Sensitive to interferon   Viruses  
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Viruses are _____ particles   submicroscopic particles  
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Viruses' genomes are elements of ____   nucleic acid that replicate inside living cells  
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Viruses replicate by using ____   the cellular synthetic machinery for the production of progeny virions  
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Virus   fluid poison or filterable viruses  
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Host range   range of animal species and tissue cells that the virus can infect  
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Host range for a given virus   broad or extremely limited  
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Structural unit   protomer protein subunit which may be assembled into capsomeres, may consist of one subunit or different protein subunits  
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Capsomeres   morphologicqal subunits from which the virus capsid is built  
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Capsid   protein shell or coat that encloses the nucleic acid genome  
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Envelope   a lipid-containing membrane that surrounds some viruses  
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Nucleocapsid   capsid together with the enclosed nucleic acid  
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Virion   complete infective virus particle  
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Viral attachment proteins (VAPs)   Capsid and envelope proteins that mediate the attachment of viruses to specific host cell receptors  
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Incomplete virion   virion without nucleic acid (empty capsid)  
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Defective virus   virus that cannot replicate b/c it lacks a full complement of viral genes  
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Replication only occurs   in mixed infections with a helper virus  
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Pseudotype   when related viruses infect the same cell, the genome of one virus may be enclosed in the heterologous capsid of the second virus  
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Pseudovirion   during viral replicaton, the capsid sometimes encloses host nucleic acid rather than viral nucleic acid  
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Pseudovirion - replicate?   look like ordinary viruses particles when observed by electron microscope, but do not replicate  
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Episome   autonomous extra-chromosomal genetic element  
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Provirus   viral DNA that is integrated into a host cell chromosome in a latent state and must be activated before it is transcribed  
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Provirus is transmissible from ____   a parent cell to its daughter cell  
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Virus consists of ___, surrounded by a protein coat, ____   nucleic acid capsid  
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Capsid - enveloped or nonenveloped?   could be either  
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Capsid are made up of ___ held together by ____ bonds   capsomeres noncovalent bonds  
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Most viruses have ___ capsid except for the ____   one reoviruses  
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Reoviruses have ____ capsids   outer, middle, and inner  
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Cubic Symmetry   icosahedron pattern 12 corners/vertices/20 equilateral triangular faces, and 30 edges  
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Most efficient arrangement for subunits in a closed shell   cubic symmetry  
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Capsomeres are ___ in herpesviruses and reoviruses   hollow  
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Capsomeres are hollow in ____   herpesviruses and reoviruses  
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Capsomeres located at the certices of icosahedral virions   Penton  
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Penton   Capsomeres located at the certices of icosahedral virions  
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Capsomes and nucleic acid molecules   self-assemble as a helix  
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Why is it not possible for "empty" helical particles to form   b/c of the interaction b/t capsid protein and nucleic acid  
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Incomplete virions   helical nucleocapsids  
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In all animal viruses, helical nucleocapsides are wound into ___ and ____   into a coil and enclosed within a lipoprotein envelope  
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Complex viruses   some virus particles do not exhibit simple cubic or helical symmetry but are more complicated  
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Poxviruses   brick-shaped with ridges on the external surface and a core and lateral bodies inside  
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Capsid function   structural symmetry encases and protects facilitates attachment contain enzymes determines antigenic characters  
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Capsid encases and protects the viral nucleic acid from   nucleases in biologic fluids  
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Capsid facilitates the attachment of virus to   susceptible cells  
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Some capsids contain enzymes   which play roles in the infection process ex/ many viruses contain their own nucleic acid polymerases which transcribe the viral nucleic acid into mRNA  
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Capsids determine the antigenic characteristics of the virus   the host's protective immune response is directed against antigenic determinants of proteins or glycoproteins exposed on the surface of the virus particle  
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Enveloped virons acquired their envelopes when   the nucelocapsid buds from cellular membranes (cytoplasmic membrane, nuclear membrane, or Golgi complex)  
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Budding occurs only at sites where _____ have been inserted into the host cell membrane   virus-specific proteins  
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Envelope consists of   Virus-specified proteins Lipid bilayer  
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Virus-specified proteins associated with   receptor binding membrane fusion matrix protein  
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Receptor binding associated with   glycoprotein peplomeres, observed as spikes in electron micrographs  
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Membrane fusion associated with   fusion proteins  
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Polysaccharides are dervied from   the host cell  
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Fusion proteins are associated with   peplomeres and are involved in viral entry into and release from cells  
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Matrix protein found   a layer inside of some evelopes  
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Matrix protein serves as _____ for ____at plasma membrane   recognition site nucleocapsid  
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Matrix protein provides ____ to the envelope   added rigidity  
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Lipid bilayer derived from   host cell membrane  
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The integrity of the envelope is maintained ______, so it's readily disrupted by ____   -maintained only in aqueous or moist environments -disrupted by drying, acidic conditions, etc  
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Solvents or detergents are used to ______   disrupt the integrity of the envelope  
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Examples of solvents   ether chloroform  
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Examples of detergents   sodium deoxycholate  
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Disruptions of the envelope result in ______ except in some poxviruses   loss of infectivity  
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Capsids and envelopes both have ______   viral attachment protein  
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Viral proteins   make up 50-70% of the virion  
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Examples of viral proteins   structural proteins regulatory proteins enzymes  
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Several viruses contain enzymes at are encoded in the _____   viral genomes  
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Most important enzyme that is encoded in the viral genome   Polymerases  
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Polymerases   copies part of all of the genome of the virus, sometimes immediately upon entry into the host cell  
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Types of enzymes that are encoded in the viral genome   -enzymes transcribing the viral genome into mRNAs -enzymes involved in copying virion RNA and DNA -enzymes that copy the nucleic acid genome  
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Enzymes transcribing the viral genome into mRNAs   DNA-dependent RNA polymerase RNA-dependent RNA polymerase  
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DNA-dependent RNA polymerase ___ as template   DNA  
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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase ___ as template   RNA  
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DNA-dependent RNA polymerase: carried by DNA viruses such as ________ which replicate in the cytoplasm   asfivirus poxviruses  
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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: carried by viruses with _____   (-) sense RNA genome  
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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: Host cells lack/have this enzyme   lack this enzyme  
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Enzymes involved in copying virion RNA into DNA   RNA dependent DNA polymerase  
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RNA dependent DNA polymerase   reverse transcriptase  
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RNA dependent DNA polymerase: Carried by ______   hepadnaviruses retroviruses  
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Enzymes that copy the nucleic acid genome   DNA-dependent DNA polymerase RNA-dependent RNA polymerase  
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DNA-dependent DNA polymerase   copies the DNA genome  
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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase   replicase copies the RNA genomes  
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Viral nucleic acids   encode the genetic info necessary for replication of the virus  
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All viral genomes are haploid/diploid   haploid (they contain only one copy of each gene)  
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Genome may be ___________   Monopartite or multipartite  
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Monopartite   all viral genes contained in a single chromosome  
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Multipartite   segmented ex/ viral genes distributed among several chromosomes that constitute the viral genome  
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DNA genome   genome of all DNA viruses of vertebrates is monopartite  
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DNA genome are double/single stranded   can be either double or single stranded  
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RNA genome   single stranded or double stranded monopartite or multipartite positive sense RNA genome negative sense RNA gemone  
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Positive-sense RNA genome   can function as mRNA in the infected cell  
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can function as mRNA in the infected cell   Naked RNA extracted from a (+) sense RNA virus is infectious when injected into host cell  
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Since mRNA can be directly translated into polypeptides, it is designated ____   plus (+) mRNA  
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Viral nucleic acids   DNA genome RNA genome Viral lipids Viral glycoproteins  
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Negative -sense RNA   cannot function as mRNA, so virion carries own transcriptase enzymes  
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Injected naked RNA is infectious/not infectious   not infectious  
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Viral lipids   found only in the envelope  
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Viral lipids are a typical bilayer with ____ and in some cases, other viral proteins, embedded in it   virus-coded glycoprotein peplomeres  
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Viruses face harsh environmental conditions in the body and on the outside, including   pH changes bile salts proteases temperature osmotic changes sunlight dessication humidity  
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To maintain transmissibilty, and infection in a susceptible population, a virus must ___________   overcome some of these conditions  
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Naked viruses survive well/ not well in the body and on the outside   survive well  
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_____ are more susceptible to environmental factors, such as gastric acidity, drying, and bile salts   Enveloped viruses  
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Viral surface proteins are denatured within a few mins at temperatures of _____, whicch make the viron incapable of normal cellular attachment, penetration, and/or uncoating   55 to 60C  
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Acidic conditions can lead to _____ of the viral capsid   reversible or irreversible  
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