Intro to Virology

Question 1

What is virology?

Answer 1

Study of viruses and viral diseases

Question 2

What is a virologist?

Answer 2

Someone who studies viruses

Question 3

What is veterinary virology?

Answer 3

Study of viruses in non-human animals

Question 4

Viruses cause high rates of ______ and ______ in animals and birds

Answer 4

Mortality & Morbidity

Question 5

T/F: Viral diseases in animals and birds cause financial losses to livestock and poultry industries, hampering economic development of a country

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Viruses are _______ entities

Answer 6

Non-living

Question 7

Viruses contain DNA or RNA surrounded by what?

Answer 7

A protein coat

Question 8

T/F: Viruses possess standard cellular organelles

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Can viruses make energy or protein by themselves?

Answer 9

No, they rely on a host cell

Question 10

T/F: All viruses are obligate intracellular parasites

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Do viruses have the genetic capability to multiply by division?

Answer 11

No, virus reproduction resembles resembles an assembly line

Question 12

What is the difference between a virus and a virion?

Answer 12

A virus is a broad general term, while a virion is a complete virus particle that consists of RNA or DNA core with a protein coat

Question 13

What is a viroid?

Answer 13

An infectious particle smaller than any of the known viruses

Question 14

Who invented vaccination?

Answer 14

Edward Jenner

Question 15

What did Edward Jenner inoculate into the arm of a healthy 8 year old boy?

Answer 15

Cowpox matter

Question 16

Who injected dried, potassium hydroxide treated w/infected rabbit brain material in two boys bitten by a rabid dog?

Answer 16

Louis Pasteur

Question 17

What filter pioneered the discovery of viruses that was used in the famous tobacco mosaic virus experiment?

Answer 17

Chamberland filter

Question 18

Who preformed the famous tobacco mosaic virus experiment?

Answer 18

Dmitri Ivanovski

Question 19

Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch discovered what disease?

Answer 19

Foot and mouth disease

Question 20

Dr. Walter Reed discovered that yellow fever was transmitted through what?

Answer 20

Mosquitoes

Question 21

Who isolated the first tumor-causing animal virus?

Answer 21

Peyton Rous (Rous sarcoma virus)

Question 22

Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll invented what type of microscope?

Answer 22

Electron Microscope

Question 23

What did Goodpasture and Burnt propagate a fowl pox virus in, successfully?

Answer 23

Embryonated egg

Question 24

Who cultured the first eukaryotic cells, mammalian cells?

Answer 24

Sanford, et al.

Question 25

Who grew poliovirus in a cell culture?

Answer 25

Ender, et al.

Question 26

Dulbecco and Vogt did what kind of assay for the first animal virus-poliovirus?

Answer 26

Plaque assay

Question 27

Which animal disease is the only one declared globally eradicated?

Answer 27

Rinderpest