Exam 3 Flashcards
Why do most scientists agree that viruses are nonliving entities?
they are not cells
Isolated picornavirus virions would be expected to carry out which of the following types of metabolism?
not respiration or fermentation of glucose
‘Capsid’ of a virus refers to which of the following:
protein shell of a virus
T/F Helical and icosahedral are terms used to describe the shapes of a virus envelope.
false
T/F ‘Nucleocapsid’ of a virus refers to a viral genome.
False
What are bacteriophages?
viruses that kill bacteria
T/F After the entry step bacteriophages leave their proteinaceous particles outside the bacterial cell.
True
T/F The basic mechanism of viral multiplication is similar for all viruses.
True
Bacteriophages undergo replication by:
Lytic cycle and/or lysogenic cycle
Virulent phages are:
lytic
The order of lytic cycle is:
adsorption-injection of genetic material- biosynthesis-maturation- lysis and release
A clear area against a confluent “lawn” of bacteria is called a
plaque
Bacteriophages mediate what kind of horizontal gene transfer between bacterial cells?
transduction
The viral genome integrated into the bacterial genome is called:
prophage
During which phase of their replication the bacteriophage release lysozyme
maturation
Generalized transduction:
transfers a different portion of bacterial DNA each time
Specialized transduction:
transfers a specific portion of bacterial DNA
Acquisition of new traits (such as virulence factors) by bacterium because of viral infection is called:
lysogenic conversion
A virus’s ability to infect an animal cell depends primarily upon the
presence of receptor sites on the cell membrane
Which of the following statements about viruses is FALSE?
viruses use their own catabolic enzymes
Nucleic acid from virions of which of the following could be directly translated by host cell ribosomes after the nucleic acid enters the cytoplasm?
a picornavirus
A virus is said to have a minus sense RNA genome. This means that:
the viral genome is complementary to viral mRNA
Virions of the -sense RNA viruses must include:
RNA dependent polymerase
Genome of Herpes viruses is:
dsDNA
An example of a latent viral infection is
cold sores
Which virus has its genome separated into 8 segments?
influenza virus
Influenza virus has what type of nucleic acid in its virions?
negative sense RNA
Which of the following are infected by the largest diversity of influenza viruses?
birds
What contributes to antigenic shift in influenza viruses?
a segmented genome
Genome of HIV virus is:
+ssRNA
T/F HIV is a retrovirus.
True
Reverse transcriptase catalyzes which of the following:
copies RNA to make DNA
HIV virus infects:
T cells (lymphocytes)
Viral envelope is acquired during which of the following steps?
release
Which of the following is a ‘naked” virus (the one that does not have an envelope)
rhinovirus
A persistent infection is one in which:
the disease process occurs gradually over a long period
T/F Viroid is a complete, infectious viral particle.
False
Which of the following is correct about viroids?
do not encode any proteins