Chapter 20.1 Vocab (Viruses)

Question 1

antibiotic

Answer 1

a group of drugs used to block the growth and reproduction of bacterial pathogens

Question 2

*bacteriophage

Answer 2

a kind of virus that infects bactera

Question 3

*capsid

Answer 3

the protein coat of a virus that surrounds the core of nucleic acids

Question 4

*lysogenic infection

Answer 4

type of replication in which virus doesn’t immediately kill host

Question 5

*lytic infection

Answer 5

viral replication process proceeds rapidly and kills host cell

Question 6

*pathogen

Answer 6

disease-causing agent

Question 7

*prion

Answer 7

small, naked strands of proteins that cause animal disease

Question 8

*prophage

Answer 8

bacteriophage DNA that is embedded in the bacterial host’s DNA

Question 9

*retroviruses

Answer 9

RNA virus that contains RNA as it’s genetic information

Question 10

*vaccine

Answer 10

Viruses used against themselves to produce vaccine made of a harmless form of a virus

Question 11

*viroid

Answer 11

stripped down viruses made of tightly folded strands or circles of RNA

Question 12

*virus

Answer 12

an infectious agent made of a core of nucleic acid and a protein coat (NOT living)