Vocabulary
Human Viral Diseases
Replication Cycles
Characteristics of viruses
Prevention and Treatment
100
A protein coat that surrounds some viruses.
What is capsid?
100
HIV becomes this after it enters itself into the chromosome
What is AIDS?
100

when the host gets sick quickly

What is lytic cycle

100

Because viruses don't have cytoplasm or organelles, can't carry out cellular functions, and don't grow by dividing into two, they are NOT this...

What is alive

100

This is a solution that contains harmless version of a virus, bacterium, or toxin that causes an immune response when introduced to the body.

What is vaccine?

200

organism the virus needs in order to reproduce

What is host

200

the flu or the common cold

What is influenza

200

Viruses perform this action at the end of the Lytic Cycle.

What is lysis (ruptures the host cell)?

200

virus and cells both have

What is genetic material (DNA or RNA)

ability to make you sick

a protective layer on the outside of them

200

this will not treat a virus but will fight bacterial infections

what is an antibiotic

300

something that makes you sick

What is a pathogen

300

a virus that attacks bacteria

What is a bacteriophage

300

takes longer to see symptoms

What is lysogenic cycle

300

something to do that helps reduce the spread of viruses on your hands

what is hand washing

400

weakened virus so organism can fight it off

What is a vaccine

400

This occurs when chickenpox enters the lysogenic cycle.

What is shingles.

400

Viral DNA inserted into the host's genome or DNA.

What is a lysogenic cycle

400

Protein projections in the envelope/ capsid help new viruses recognize these

What is host cells

500

the "keys" on a virus

what are surface membrane proteins (Projections)

500

RNA virus that reverse transcribes

What is retrovirus

500

cycle that HIV uses to infect the host

What is a lysogenic?