1.1 Basic Virology Flashcards
Slimy liquid, poison is a _________ Word for virus?
Latin
NOTE: VIRUS is named due to reason for the rapid spread
Who showed that a disease in tobacco was caused by a virus?
Ivanovski and Beijerinck
Who discovered an animal virus that causes foot and mouth disease in cattle?
Loeffler and Frosch
Loeffler and Frosch discovered virus that causes foot and mouth disease in what animal?
Cattle
Year of discovery for virus that causes foot and mouth disease in cattle and the tobacco was caused by virus?
1890s
Who first proposed the term Virus
Louis pasteur
True or False, Virus cannot exist independently from the host cell, so aren’t considered living things
TRUE
What is the proteins shell or the external coat of Virus?
Capsid
Lack enzymes and lack machinery ? T or F?
T
High specificity of host cell? T or F?
T
The period of time between infection by a virus and the appearance of the mature virus within the cell?
Eclipse period
What do you call a virus with no envelope?
Naked virus
Capsid + Nucleic acid?
Nucleocapsid
Fully formed virus that is able to establish an infection in a host cell
Virion
Part of the virus where it is used for attachment due to exposed glycoproteins?
Spike (Peplomers)
Covers the nucleocapsid?
Envelope
Viral capsid is made of protein molecule that is constructed from identical subunits called?
Capsomers
3 types of Viral capsid?
Helical
Icosahedral
Complex
Functionst of Viral capsid?
Protect
Help introduce DNA or RNA
Stimulate immune system
The sum total of the genetic information carried by an organism
Genome
Virus only have genes necessary to invade host cells and redirect their activity T or F?
TRUE
Parvovirus contains _____ Stranded DNA
Single
All Virus are double stranded DNA except?
Parvovirus
All Virus are Single stranded RNA except?
Reoviruses
Reoviruses are ______ Stranded RNA
Double stranded
2 types of dsDNA?
Linear
Circular
NOTE: Central dogma (Replication, Translation, Transcription)
RNA are mostly ______ Stranded
Single
Genomes that are ready for immediate translation into proteins
Positive sense RNA
Genomes have to be converted into the proper form to be made into proteins
Negative sense RNA
Individual Genes exist on separate pieces of RNA
Segmented