Viruses contain either ______ or ______, never both.
DNA or RNA
_________ is the areas where the virus-infected cells have been destroyed show up as clear, well-defined patches?
What is (a) plaque?
The correct term to describe viral specificity to a host cell receptor?
What is tropism?
All viruses have a protein ____, or shell, that surrounds the nucleic acid in the central core.
This symmetry features both icosahedral and helical symmetries.
What is complex?
What are closed, infectious RNAs, which do not encode for proteins?
Lysogeny is described as
What is the cycle in which the host chromosome carries the bacteriophage DNA is called ______.
These are made up of proteins which can misfold and alter the function of normally existing proteins
What are prions?
Viruses that consist of only a nucleocapsid are considered ______?
non-enveloped viruses
The part of the viral replication cycle during which the virus can acquire (get) the viral envelope
release
These are comprised of a nucleic acid and require a helper virus to assemble.
What is a fully formed virus that is able to establish an infection in a host cell is often called ______?
What is a virion?
What is when viral DNA is incorporated into the DNA of the host?
What is (a) Provirus?
This must be present in order for the toxins of diphtheria, cholera, and botulism to be produced.
What is a bacteriophage?