Introduction To Virus Flashcards
Any of various simple submicroscopic obligate parasites of plants, animals, and
bacteria?
Virus
They are classified as functionally
_____ or _______.
active, inactive
Virus consists of its _____ or essentially of a core of _____, surrounded by a protein coat called _____?
Genome, RNA or DNA, caspid
Is the viral genome (viral DNA or RNA) + protein coat (capsid)?
Nucleocapsid
It can posses an outer membrane covering the capsid?
Enveloped virus
can be non-enveloped viruses?
Naked Viruses
Virus family has the suffix _____?
-viridae
The protein shell or coat surrounding the viral genome (viral RNA or DNA)?
Caspid
3 types of caspid symmetry?
Icosahedral
Helical
Complex
The capsid proteins are arranged in equilateral triangles that
enclose the viral genome?
Icosahedral
The capsid proteins are arranged around the core in a spiral
manner?
Helical
Virus cannot reproduce on their own. They must invade a cell, take over the cell’s
machinery and instruct the machinery to produce enzymes and new viral structural
protein.
Viral Replication
6 steps of viral replication?
- Absorption
- Penetration
- Uncoating
- Synthesis of viral nucleic acid and structural protein
- Assembly/maturation
- Release
The first step in infection of a cell is attachment to the cell surface. This is a very
specific process in which the viral surface structure interact to a particular
receptor the cell surface of the host cell.
Absorption
The virus enters the cell either by: Fusing with the plasma membrane, Endocytosis, or Fusing with the plasma membrane and injecting its genome to the host cell?
Penetration