Chapter 6
Protein coating that protects viral nucleic acid
What are capsids?
A common non-life threatening latent viral infection characterized by oral blisters or vesicle?
What is herpes simplex I?
The final electron acceptor in anerobic respiration.
A substance that is NOT oxygen (such as nitrate or sulfate.)
Organisms living in close nutritional relationships required by one or both members.
What is symbiosis?
Glycoproteins protruding from the capsid, assist with virion attachement and entry.
What are spikes?
A herpes virus that can remain dormant in the ganglia of the nervous system and erupt along a dermatome.
What is varicella?
A photosynthesizing microbe would be classified in this nutritional category.
What is a photoautotroph?
A microbe that gets nutrition from metabolizing organic matter from dead organisms.
What is a saprobe?
A chemical reaction in which electrons are gained and/or lost.
What is a redox reaction?
These atypical viruses lack a true capsid and are covered by a dense layer of lipoproteins.
What are poxviruses?
A retrovirus known for attacking the human immune system.
What is HIV?
This pulls the electrons through the complexes on the electron transport chain.
What is oxygen?
Endocytosis, exocytosis, and pinocytosis are all examples of this type of transport.
What is bulk transport (active)?
An exergonic reaction that breaks down ATP so that energy can be directly utilized.
What is ATP hydrolysis?
The process by which a viral genetic material is fed into a host cell.
What is uncoating?
The enzyme required by HIV that allows it to convert RNA to DNA
What is reverse transcriptase?
The common vector for West Nile Virus.
What is a mosquito?
Minimum, maximum, and optimal.
What are the three cardinal temperatures?
The energy that enzymes assist in reducing, such as an enzyme catalyst.
What is activation energy?
A bacterial virus.
What is a bacteriophage?
The type of normally non-life-threatening infection that can be fatal to an individual with HIV that has progressed to AIDS.
What is an opportunistic infection?
Co-enzyme electron carriers heavily involved in cellular respiration.
What are NAD(H) & FAD(H2)?
Enzymes that are required for aerobic microbes to process oxygen.
What are catalase and superoxide dismutase?
The final electron acceptor in aerobic cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?