Lesson 4.2: Viruses diseases and Virions

Question 1

Viruses causes what diseases

Answer 1

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome)polio, influenza,measles,and
a few types of cancer.

Question 2

All viruses are _________ as they cannot reproduce without a ______
hosts can be ____, ____. ____

Answer 2

obligatory intracellular parasites
host cell

Plant, animal and bacterial cell

Question 3

Outside the host the exists are called ______

Answer 3

virions

Question 4

Describe what are virions

Answer 4

Viroins are macromolecular aggregates, inanimate particles that cannot reproduce or metabolize

Question 5

They contain genetic material that can either be ______ or ____

Answer 5

ss/ds RNA/DNA

Question 6

Genetic materials are surrounded by ___

Answer 6

capsid