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Viruses
Applies best to Delta's CNET classes
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
03/25/2015

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Term
list and describe the living characteristics of viruses
Definition
-use sophisticated methods to invade cells
-have the ability to take control of their host cell
-can reproduce
-can mutate
Term
non-living characteristics of viruses
Definition
-cannot carry out any metabolic pathway on own
-neither grow nor respond to the environment
-cannot reproduce independently
-recruit the host's metabolic pathways
-no cytoplasmic membrane, cytosol, or organelles
Term
define:
capsid
capsomere
nucleocapsid
Definition
capsid-protein coat
capsomere-protein subunits
nucleocapsid-genome+capsid together
Term
capsid shapes
Definition
enveloped and naked
Term
intracellular state
extracellular state
Definition
I-nucleic acid
e-virion
Term
different types of nucleic acids viruses have
Definition
ssDNA dsDNA ssRNA dsRNA
Term
events in the lifecycle of animal virus
Definition
attachment
entry
uncoating (enveloped only)
synthesis
assembly
release
Term
acute infections
Definition
do not become latent sudden onset symptoms, usually result in future immunity
Term
latent infections
Definition
dormant for long periods then becomes active (ex. herpes)
Term
viruses help cancer?
Definition
insert promoters in front of protooncogene and disrupt or eliminate the gene for the repressor
Term
antigenic Drift
Definition
point mutations in the RNA coding and change virus just enough to evade immune system
Term
antigenic Shift
Definition
larger change in genome, mixing of genetic info from two strains of virus that are infecting a host simultaneously
Term
parts of influenza virus/classified
Definition
hemagglutinin and neuraminidase
Term
structure of a bacteriophage
Definition
protein head, tail and tail fibers (alien insects)
Term
lytic replication
Definition
cell destroyed

attachment
entry
bacterial chromosome degraded
synthesis
assembly
release
Term
lysogenic replication
Definition
DNA incorporated

attachment
entry
prophage in chromosome
replication of chromosome and virus
induction
synthesis
assembly
release
Term
lysogenic conversion
Definition
genes carried by the phage alter the phenotype of the bacterial cell in some way
Term
viroid
Definition
extremely small, circular pieces of RNA that are infectious and pathogenic in plants. similar to RNA viruses but lack capsids
Term
prion
Definition
mis-folded proteins that can induce other proteins to change their shape to become prion proteins
Term
prion diseases
Definition
spongiform encephalopathies
mad cow
scrapie
variant Creutzfeld-Jakob syndrome
chronic wasting disease
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