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Viruses
Chapter 4
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
05/15/2008

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one of the first to study viruses in depth
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iwanowski
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iwonowski believed a 'filterable virus' must cause
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tobacco mosaic disease
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later in the 1890's, Beijerink repeated the work of Iwanowski and called the infectious agent a "_"
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contagious living fluid
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due to EM in the 1940's scientists could see the viruses
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electron microscppe
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smallest virus
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poliovirus
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Different virus shapes

 

H (coil)

I (triangular faces)

etc...

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helix

icosahedron

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viruses that attack bacteria are
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bacteriophages
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classified in three forms: H, I, C
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helical, icosahedral, complex
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components of viruses

 

NA

PC

EE

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Virus consists of

core of ncleic acid, protein covering, and sometime enclosing envelope with spikes 

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a capsid is
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the outer protein coat of a virus
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a genome is... and consists of... or....
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the nucelic acid core of the virus, and consists of DNA or RNA
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a capsid is formed from smaller protein units called...
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capsomeres
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the combo of ... and ... is known as nucelocapsid
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genome and capsid
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an envelope is a...
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enclosing structure similar to the membrane that encloses a cell, sometimes envelope has spikes that help virus contact host cell
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Stages of Virus replication

A

P

S

A

R

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Attachment- finding the right host cell

Penetration stage – getting the genome inside

Synthesis stage – production of viral parts

Assembly stage – formation of viral particles

Release stage – new viruses emerge from cell

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anitbodies are...
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protein molecules synthesized by the immune system in response to the prescence of viruses
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acyclovir
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herpes

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amantadine
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flu
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AZT--

interferon (potential)

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for AIDS
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salk polio vaccine
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injected
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sabin polio vaccine
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oral
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viroids
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ultra-microscopic, single stranded molecules of RNA without protein coat

 

infect plants

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prions

 

 

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kuru, mad cow disease
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prions names by .... who won the Nobel Prize
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stanley prusiner
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prions do not have...
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nucleic acid
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Cancer..

hep b causes..

hpv causes...

ebv causes...

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liver cancer

cervical cancer

burkitt's lymphoma (tumor)

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virus stays in host cell cytoplasm and fails to replicate or destroy
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lysogenic
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virus replicates within host cell and destroys
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lytic cycle
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