Fundamentals of Virology

Question 0

Scientist who demonstrated that an infectious filterable substance following Koch’s postulates is present in the sap of tobacco with mosaic disease

Answer 0

Dimitri Ivanovski

Question 1

Scientist who inoculated James Phipps with pus from cowpox blisters to test his hypothesis on vaccination against smallpox

Answer 1

Edward Jenner

Question 2

Discovered foot-in-mouth disease (Aphthovirus)

Answer 2

Friedrich Loeffler

Question 3

Proved that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species

Answer 3

Walter Reed

Question 4

Discovered the polio virus

Answer 4

Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper

Question 5

Discovered bacteriophages

Answer 5

Frederick Twort

Question 6

Discovered the possibility of phage therapy

Answer 6

Felix d’Herelle

Question 7

Developed attenuated 17D strain vaccine against yellow fever

Answer 7

Max Theiler

Question 8

T or F: Viruses are acellular particles with functional organelles

Answer 8

False. Viruses have non-functional organelles

Question 9

T or F: Viruses are completely dependent on their hosts

Answer 9

True

Question 10

T or F: Viruses may not be killed by antibiotics

Answer 10

True

Question 11

2 Defined life cycle phases of viruses

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Transmission Phase and Reproductive Phase

Question 12

Complete, fully-developed infectious viral particle composed of nucleic acid and surrounded by a protein coat

Answer 12

virion

Question 13

Simplest virioin

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nucleocapsid

Question 14

Protein-nucleic acid complex representing the packaged form of the viral genome

Answer 14

nucleocapsid

Question 15

T or F: a virus may contain both DNA and RNA

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False. It’s only either one or the other

Question 16

Protein shell or coat enclosing the virus genome

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capsid

Question 17

Structural units on the capsid

Answer 17

capsomeres