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Cell Structures
Virus Structures
Virus Replication Cycle
Characteristics of Life
Miscellaneous
100
The network of protein filaments and tubules that give a cell shape and support
What is the cytoskeleton?
100
The genetic material of a virus contains either ________or _______.
What is DNA and RNA
100
Name the replication phase: A virus enters a host cell and injects its DNA.
What is penetration?
100
Is a cell living?
Yes
100
This was the first person to suspect there was something smaller than bacteria that was causing disease.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
200
The rigid, outermost layer in plant cells that give it shape and support.
What is the cell wall?
200
The viral capsid is composed of subunits called __________?
What are capsomers?
200
Name the replication phase: A host cell bursts and newly made viruses are spread.
What is release?
200
Name the characteristic of life: Reaction to internal or external changes
What is responding to the environment?
200
This is the only characteristic of life that viruses exhibit.
What is reproduction?
300
The semipermeable membrane surrounding a cell and controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
300
This part of a virus structure would include phospholipids.
What is the envelope?
300
Name the replication phase: A virus "connects" to a host cell by special receptors.
What is attachment or adsorption?
300
Name the characteristic of life: Ability to produce new individual organisms
What is reproduce?
300
This component makes up the structure of a cell membrane.
What are phsopholipids?
400
The jelly-like substance in a cell that contains organelles and fills the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
400
Which part of a virus' structure is responsible for host recognition?
What are glycoprotein spikes?
400
Name the replication phase: The pieces of a virus are put together in order to be released.
What is assembly?
400
Name the characteristic of life: Internal regulation to maintain a constant, balanced state.
What is maintaining homeostasis?
400
Name the way viruses reproduce.
What is inserting DNA into the host cell?
500
This specific organelle is found in cells, but lacking in viruses, and is crucial to making proteins.
What are ribosomes?
500
A virus that specifically infects a bacterial cell is called _____________?
What is a bacteriophage?
500
Name the replication phase: A virus sheds its "coat" and the host cell begins copying the viral DNA/RNA.
What is uncoating and biosynthesis?
500
Name the characteristic of life: Ability to increase in size without changing in shape.
What is to grow?
500
This person helped confirm Pasteur’s idea of a virus.
Who is Dimitri Ivanowsky?