Shapes & Structures
These are two structural parts to all viruses.
What are the nucleic acid and the capsid?
When a virus infects a bacterium, the virus injects this into the cell.
What is viral nucleic acid?
This is the best way to prevent some viruses.
What is a vaccine?
This is how bacteria is different from viruses.
What is bacteria is alive, larger, made of cells?
The capsid of a virus is made of this macromolecule.
What is protein?
If a person has a virus that has incorporated into the person's genome, but does not show the symptoms, then the virus is in this stage (cycle).
What is lysogenic cycle?
This method is the most effective way of treating viral infections.
What are anti-viral drugs?
During the lysogenic cycle, this is created when the nucleic acids are inserted into the genome.
What is a provirus?
This is how vaccines are created.
What is material from the virus that causes the disease are injected into the organism?
Some viruses have an extra layer around the capsid called the _____________.
What is an envelope?
This cycle destroys the host cell soon after infection.
What is the lytic cycle?
This is the one characteristic of life that viruses do have.
What is they can contain DNA?
This macromolecule makes up the outer layer around the capsid of some viruses.
What are lipids?
The type of nucleic acid that viruses contain.
What is DNA or RNA?
These are the types of organisms that can be infected by a virus.
What is all living organisms?
Some viruses have a 20-face structure called _____________.
What is icosahedral?
This is the most common way that viruses destroy cells.
What is bursting through the cell to release new virion?
This enzyme exists in HIV that allows it to function as a retrovirus.
What is reverse transcriptase?
These are the steps needed for viral infection.
What is attach, inject, assemble, release, and repeat?