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Chapter 19: Viruses Flashcards

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An infectious particle consisting of genes packaged in a protein coat

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Virus

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T/F: viruses are more complex in structure than prokaryotic cells

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F: much simpler

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T/F: Viruses cannot reproduce or carry out metabolism outside of a host cell

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T: They are dependent on the host cell

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T/F: Viruses are cells

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F: Viruses are not cells; they are very small infectious particles

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What do viruses consist of?

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Nucleic acid enclosed in a protein coat, and some cases, a membranous envelope

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Viral genomes consist of which 2 things?

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Double/single stranded DNA or double/single stranded RNA

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Viruses are classified as which two kinds of viruses?

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DNA or RNA

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A genome can be what two kinds of shapes of single molecule of nucleic acid?

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Linear or circular

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How many genes do viruses have in their genome?

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Between 3 and 2,000

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The protein shell that encloses the viral genome

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Capsid

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Capsids are built from protein subunits called _______

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Capsomeres

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What are the two types of main structures of viruses that are associated with capsid?

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Helical or icosahedral

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Accessory structures that help viruses infect hosts

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Protein spikes

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Derived from membranes of host cells and surround the capsids of influenza viruses and many other viruses found in animals

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Viral envelopes

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Contain a combination of viral and host cell molecules

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Viral envelopes

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Viruses that infect bacteria; AKA “Phages”

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Bacteriophages

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Have elongated capsid head that encloses their DNA

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Bacteriophages

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T/F: Viruses replicate only in host cells

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T: viruses are obligate I trace lunar parasites; can replicate only within a host cell

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A limited number of host species that can infect

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Host range

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How does a viruses replicate?

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Utilizes the cell’s machinery to reproduce

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What are the best understood of all viruses?

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Phages

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What are phage’s two alternative reproductive mechanisms?

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Lytic and lysogenic cycle

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A phage replicative cycle that culminates in the death of the host cell

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Lytic cycle

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Produces new phages and lyses (breaks open) the host’s cell wall, releasing the progeny virus

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Lytic cycle

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Phage that reproduces only by the Lytic cycle is

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Virulent phage

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Replicates the phage genome without destroying the host

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Lysogenic cycle

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Viral DNA molecule is incorporated into the host cells chromosome

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Lysogenic cycle

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Phage that use both the Lytic and lysogenic cycle are called

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Temperate phages

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The temperate phage that is widely used in biological research

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Lambda

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Integrated viral DNA

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Prophage

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What can trigger the virus genome to exit the bacterial chromosome and switch to the Lytic mode?

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Environmental signal

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Have their own defenses against phages

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Bacteria

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Foreign DNA can be identified as such and cut up by cellular enzymes called

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Restriction enzymes

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Both bacteria and archaea can protect themselves from viral infection with what system?

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CRISPR-Cas

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What does CRISPRs stand for?

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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

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What are the 2 key variables used to classify viruses that infect animals?

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an RNA or DNA genome, either single-stranded or double-stranded; presence or absence of a membranous envelope

37
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Use reverse transcriptase to copy their RNA genome into DNA

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Retroviruses

38
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What is the retrovirus that causes AIDS?

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HIV (Human Immunodeficiency virus)

39
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Viral DNA that is integrated into the host genomes

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Provirus

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Unlike a prophage, remains a permanent resident of the host cell

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Provirus

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What transcribes the pro viral DNA into RNA molecules?

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RNA polymerase

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Name 3 mobile genetic elements

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Plasmids, transposons, and viruses

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Smaller, less complex entities that cause disease in animals

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Prions

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A harmless derivative of a pathogen that stimulates the immune system to mount defense against the harmful pathogen

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Vaccine

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T/F: viral infections cannot be treated by antibiotics

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T

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Widespread outbreak

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Epidemic

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Plant viruses spread disease by 2 major routes

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Horizontal and vertical transmission

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Entering through damaged cell walls

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Horizontal transmission

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Inheriting the virus from a parent

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Vertical transmission

50
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Infectious proteins that appear to cause degenerative brain disease in animals

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Prions

51
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Scrapie in sheep

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Prions

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Mad cow disease

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Prions

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Prions

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Incorrectly folded proteins, can be transmitted in food, act slowly, and are virtually indestructible

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Prions

55
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Able to convert a normal form of a protein into the misfiled version

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Prion

56
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Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

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Prions

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