Shapes & Structures
Reproduction
Diseases
Vocabulary
100
These are two parts to all viruses.
What are the nucleic acid and protein coat?
100
When a virus infects a bacterium, viral nucleic acid injects this into the cell.
What is viral nucleic acid?
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?
100
Viruses can only replicate inside of this.
What is a host cell?
200

This is where nucleic acid is stored within a bacteriaphage.

What is in its protein capsid (head)?

200

The stage in which viral nucleic acids are injected into the host cell

What is penetration?

200
This is a virus that does not have an available vaccine.
What is the common cold?
200
This is the type of medicine that is the most effective way in preventing the spread of a virus.
What is a vaccination?
300
Influenza has this shape.
What is spherical?
300

The stage in which the viral genetic material takes over the host cell’s metabolism and instruct host cell ribosomes to manufacture viral proteins

What synthesis?

300

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

What is the cell cycle/mitosis/cell division?

300
This is a virus that attacks bacteria.
What is bacteriophage?
400

Tobacco Mosaic Virus has this shape.

What is helical?

400

The stage in which the host cell bursts and new virions move on to infect other cells and the process begins again.

What is release/lysis?

400

The mode of action of viruses, like herpes simplex, that can remain dormant for long periods of time before recurrence of infection happens

What is latency?

400

This structure is formed from proteins and phospholipids from the host cell, and only some viruses have them

What is an envelope?

500

Pox virsues have this shape.

What is complex shape?

500

The stage in which copies of the viral DNA or RNA are made using materials from the host cell

What is replication?

500

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

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

500

The complete infectious virus particle

What is a virion?

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