Virus

Shapes & Structures

100

These are two parts to all viruses.

a- nucleus and dna

b- capsid and genetic material

c- cells and genetic material

What are capsid and genetic material?

200

This is where nucleic acid is stored within a bacteriaphage.

What is a capsid?

300

What is another name for Influenza?

a-  flu

b- cold sores

c-stomach bug

What is the flu?

400

TMV has this shape.

What is helical?

500

Ebola has this shape.

a- round (coccus)

b- rod (bacillus)

c- filovrus (like a snake shape)

What is filovirus?

Reproduction

100

When a virus infects a bacterium, a virus injects this into the cell.

What is viral nucleic acid? DNA/RNA

200

If a person has HIV, but does not show the symptoms, then the virus is in this stage.

What is lysogentic cycle?

300

This cycle destroys the host cell.

What is the lytic cycle?

400

During the lysogentic cycle, the virus does?.

the viral DNA is replicated into the host cell and goes dormant

500

This is the most common threat to a host organism posed by an invading virus.

What is destruction of cells?

Diseases

100

One of the top reasons medicines cannot stop spread of disease is due to this.

What is they can't stop viruses from attaching to cells?

200

This is a virus that does not have an available vaccine.

What is the common cold?

300

Viruses can lead to cancer when they affects genes that regulate this.

What is the cell cycle?

400

This is the type of cells that HIV targets.

What are white blood cells?

500

Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections due to this reason.

What is antibiotics are designed to interfere with a metabolism. (Viruses do not have!)

Vocabulary

100

Viruses can only replicate inside of this.

What is a host cell?

200

This is the type of medicine that is the most effective way in preventing the spread of a virus. 

hint: Need yearly

What is a vaccination?

300

This is a virus that attacks bacteria.

What is bacteriophage?

400

This virus has a 99% mortality rate.

a- HIV

b- rabies

c- ebola

What is a rabies?

500

Edward Jenner helped control, (not cures) mall pox by introducing this into Europe.

What is a vaccination?

Miscellaneous

100

This is how bacteria is different from viruses.

What is bacteria is alive?

200

This is how vaccines are created.

What is virus from the material that causes the disease are injected into the organism?

300

These are three ways viruses are similar to cells.

What is have proteins, nucleic acid, and markers for communication

400

This is the scientists who discovered the polio vaccine.

Who is Salk?

500

This is the scientists who identified the first virus.

Who is Stanley?