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What is a virus called in the extracellular state?
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Virion
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A virus is a acellular obligate parasite that can only reproduce in the living cells of what (3)
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Animals
Plants Bacteria |
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What does a virus consist of
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A capsid surounding nuclic acid. Either DNA or RNA but never both
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what is a Nucleocapsid
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the protien coat capsid and the nuclic acid it protects
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What are the three shapes of virla nuclecapsid
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Helical
Complex Icosahedral (20 sided) |
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what three ways are virsuses classified
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the Host they infect
kind of genome (DNA or RNA) Size/Shape/Symmetry |
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What two classification of viruses are the most abundant
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dsDNA
(+)ssRNA |
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What is the hidden viral DNA in a cells genome called and what cycle is this
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Provirus/Prophage
Lysogenic |
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What is different between the Lytic and Lysogenic stage in terms of the host cells reaction
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In the lysosgenic stage the viral DNA is hidden in the host genome and does not trigger an immune response, like in the lytic cycle
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Why do most antiviral and antimicrobial agents not work on virsuses
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Because viruses lack all self-metabolic proccess
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