Definition of a Virus and Characteristics
What is the definition of a virus?
What is an entity containing either DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat capable of invading and multiplying inside host cells?
What are the viral structures?
What is nucleic acid core, capsid, envelope, and spikes?
What are the viral shapes?
What is helical, polyhedron, complex?
What are the two cycles?
What are the lytic and lysogeny?
Herpes Simplex Type 1:
Herpes Simplex Type 2:
Herpes Varicella-Zoster:
Epstein Bar:
Cytomegalovirus:
Cold sores
Genital Herpes
Chicken pox/Shingles
Infectious Mononucleosis
Congenital, Transplant, and AIDS Infections
What does it mean to be an obligate intracellular parasites?
They must have a host cell
What is the nucleic acid core?
What is a genome that is double or single stranded with DNA or RNA?
What is a helical shape and example?
What is coiled/spiral capsid. Example is rabies, influenza, and ebola?
What is the lytic cycle?
What is a hostile takeover, act of piracy, and lysis of host cell?
Picornaviruses
Rhinoviruses and Enteroviruses
What is the size of a virus and what is the unit to measure them?
What is a capsid?
What is a protein coat that protects genome from enviornment, determines shape, and involved in specificity?
What is a polyhedron shape and the examples?
What is 20 triangle sides and 12 corners. Examples are herpes and polio?
What is the lysogeny cycle?
What is an act of espionage (spying)?
Polioviruses:
Echoviruses:
Coxsackie viruses:
Hepatitis A:
Polio
Aseptic Meningitis
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Infectious Hepatitis
What are host ranges?
What is the envelope?
What is a lipoprotein layer outside capsid that is acquired by budding from host cell?
What is a complex shape and the examples?
What is a complicated irregular shapes? Examples are bacteriophages and smallpox?
What are the steps of the lytic cycle?
What is...
1. Attachment/adsorption
2. Penetration
3. Biosynthesis
4. Maturation
5. Release
Give 5 examples of viral diseases caused by viruses
Warts, yellow fever, rubella, encephalitis, respiratory infections, influenza, Marburg, small pox, ears, mers, covid, rubeola, mumps, fifth disease, RSV, infantile gastroenteritis, serum hepatitis, HIV, rabies, and ebola?
What are bacterial viruses called?
What are bacteriophages?
What is a nucleocapsid?
What is a nucleic acid core and a capsid?
What are the steps of the lysogeny cycle?
What is...
1. Penetration
2. Incorporation
3. Exibits new charateritics
4. Release