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
Viruses that infect bacteria.
What is bacteriophages.
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
An intermediate host that transfers the pathogen or parasite to another organism.
What is vector
200
Untreated diseases can evolve into this
What is Cancer?
200
Viruses perform this action at the end of the Lytic Cycle.
What is lysis (ruptures the host cell)?
200
Some viruses have a vilified membrane that surrounds the capsid called this...
What is an envelope
200
This is an important part in preventing viral disease.
What is Vector Control?
300
Phage DNA that is integrated into a specific site of the host cell's chromosome
What is prophage
300
Illnesses caused by new or reappearing infectious diseases that typically exist in animal populations and can affect humans who interact with these animals
What is emerging diseases
300
Retroviruses require this enzyme to replicate.
What is reverse transcriptase?
300
Viruses can't carry out these two cellular functions..
What is homeostasis and metabolism
300
This virus is a DNA virus that is spread by nasal droplets from sneezing and coughing.
What is Smallpox
400
The gene that controls cell growth
What is proto-oncogene
400
This occurs when chickenpox enters the lysogenic cycle.
What is shingles.
400
Viral DNA inserted into the host's chromosome.
What is a provirus?
400
Proteins in the envelope help new viruses recognize these...
What is host cells
400
This is a weakened form of the virus that cannot cause disease.
What is attenuated virus?
500
A class of drugs that block the construction of new viral capsids.
What is protease inhibitors
500
These are immune system cells
What is macrophages
500
A virus that enters the Lysogenic Cycle.
What is a temperate virus?
500
This is the first virus to be crystallized
What is tobacco mosaic virus
500
This drug blocks the DNA polymerase of herpes viruses and chickenpox virus.
What is acyclovir?