How Viruses Work
Viral Definitions
Viruses around the World
Virus Facts
100

How many ways is there for a virus to infect the host?

There is 2 ways.

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An infectious particle made of DNA/RNA covered in protein.

What is a virus?

100

This virus originated in Africa and the global outbreak started in 2013.

What is ebola?

100
A protein sheath around the nucleic acid of a virus.
What is a capsid?
200

A virus that is long term is a ___ house guest.

What is permanent?

200

An infectious particle that makes host cells burst.

What is a lytic infection?

200

This virus is normally transmitted by an infected animal's bite.

What is rabies?

200

A protective outer coat of a virus.

What is a lipid envelope?

300

A virus that infects bacteria.

What is a bacterio phage?

300
A phage DNA inserted into host DNA.

What is a prophage?

300

This virus was discovered in the early 1980's and has since killed as many as 32 million people worldwide.

What is HIV?

300

Known as the smallest virus.

What is the circovirus?

400

A virus can stay & take what it needs to kill the host and leave is described as a ___.

What is a bad house guest?

400
An infectious particle made of only proteins that makes others fold wrong.

What is a prion?

400

This virus was the cause of the most recent severe pandemic (other than covid-19).

What is the Spanish Influenza?

400
Latin word meaning "slimy liquid or poison."

What is the Latin meaning of virus?

500

A virus infecting host in any way is ____ ____ for the host.

What is not good?

500

A phage combines DNA into host cell DNA to pass on a prophage to the daughter cells.

What is a lysogenic infection?
500

This was what caused the Influenza virus to take over the body.

What is H1N1 with avion genes?

500

Known as the biggest virus.

What is the mimivirus?