Abril 7 Bi Flashcards
What have viruses
Genetic material (DNA) and a capsid
What does viruses infected?
Humans
From where do they enter?
From body holes
What does viroids have?
RNA ,
What does viroids infected ?
Plants
How do the viroids enter to the plants?
By seeds
What does a prion have?
Proteins
What does prions infected?
Normally humans but they also can infected animals
What exactly do the prions infected?
The brain
Viruses exist in..
A variety of shapes and sizes
Simple structure of viruses
Genetic material (DNA)
Capsid , a protein shell
Maybe a lipid envelope
They infect bacteria
Bacteriophages
Fisrt way that viruses enter cells
Bacteriophages pierce hosts cells
Second way that viruses enter cells
Viruses of eukaryotes enter by endocytosis
Third way that viruses enter cells
Viruses of eukaryotes also fuse with membrane
How many types a viruses can cause?
2
What are the 2 types that a virus can cause?
Lytic infection
Lysogenic infection
Causes the host cell to burst
Lytic infection
Does no immediate harm
Lysogenic infection
With what some viral diseases can be prevent?
With vaccines