Unit 2 Quiz/HW Flashcards
Viruses are no living particles with a genome made of a DNA or ___, surrounded by a shell (capsid) made of ___
RNA and protein
Viruses are unable to reproduce without which of the following?
A host cell
Most viruses have a capsid that is ___ or ___ in terms of its basic structure and symmetry
Icosahedral and helical
Viral genomes may be composed of ___ or ___ and may be ___-strangded or ___-stranded
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid)
Single and double
What describes a virus
A small biological particle comprised of Nucleic acid enclosed in a protein coat
How do viruses replicate
Host cells transcriptions and translation systems are used to replicate the genome and create capsize proteins
What of the following are reasons why classifying viruses by the disease they cause can be impractical?
Some viruses do not appear to cause any disease
Some viruses can cause different diseases in different contexts
The same disease can be caused by many different viruses
In the Baltimore classification of viruses, there are ___ groups of viruses and every known virus can be placed in only one such group bases on the way it ___ its genome.
7 and replicates
In order to study viruses in the environment, scientists isolate nucleic acids from an environmental sample, sequence them, and use computers to assemble genomes and compare them to known sequences in databases. This approach is known as
Metagenomics
Why is it difficult to classify influenza viruses based on their host?
Because there are 4 types of influenza that can infect many different (humans, birds, pigs, dogs, cats)
Bacteria-infecting viruses are also known as
Bacteriophage
The classification of viruses based on genome replication is known as the ___ classification after the scientist that first proposed it.
Baltimore
Rank the following cells and particles in order according to size, with the smallest at the top and largest at the bottom.
Protein
T2 bacteriophage
Influenza virus
E. Coli bacterium
Eukaryotic cell
What is a characteristic of the lyric cycle
A large number of phages is released at a time
Viruses that contain ___ as their genetic material are often assigned to species group; the same is not true of viruses with ___ as their genetic material
DNA and RNA
___ involves isolating DNA from an environmental sample, sequencing it, and compared it to known sequences in DNA databases
Metagenomics
What viruses uses the cellular machinery of a bacteria for its own replication
Bacteriophage
___ is a condition characterized by viruses freely circulating in the blood or lymph
Viermia
Regarding bacteriophage, during which type of cycle does the phage enter a latent phase, allowing it to be replicated with the host cell?
Lysogenic
What are the conventional systematic groups that are also used to classify viruses
Family, genus, and order
What are the two main ways in which a virus can spread to infect secondary sites in the human body?
In blood or lymph
Via neurological tissue
Compared to archaea viruses, bacteriophages are
Less diverse in their morphologies
Bacteriophage exhibit two reproductive cycles: the __ cycle, in which the latent phage is replicated with the host cell, and the ___ cycle, in which phage undergo replication within the host cell, eventually causing it to rupture.
Lysogenic
Lytic
A ___ viral infection involves the rapid replication of the virus, often at the site of infection, which leads to sudden symptom onset
Acute
Bacteriophage contribute DNA to their hosts during the ___ cycle, which may allow phage genes to be expressed with those of the host.
Lysogentic
In ___ viral infections, a virus or its genomes can be found in the host for long periods of time: years, decades, and sometimes for the rest of the hosts life
Persistent
What is true regarding Archean viruses and bacteriophages
Both can have double-stranded DNA as their genome
Archaea viruses are more diverse in their morphologies than bacteriophages
What is the effect of the initial acute disease episode after infection with an HSV-1 or HSV-2
Formation of painful blisters at the site of infection
An ___ disease is a disease that appears in the population for the first time, or that spreads to a new geographical area
Emerging
What are the characteristics of acute viral infections
They result in the sudden symptom onset
They involve rapid viral replication
They often (no always) establish at the site of infection
The disease that causes the development of numerous small cavities in the brain of infected individuals due to death of neurons, producing a spongy appearance, is called
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
The 3 types of persistent human viral infections based on the amount of virus present and when it is produced
Chronic
Slow
Latent
Infectious proteins that can cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are called ___
Prions
After the initial acute disease (painful blisters) subsides due to an immune response, where can HSV-1 and HSV-2 be found?
In the nuclei of sensory neurons that innervate the site of infection
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies cause
The development of numerous small cavities in the brain as neurons die
After the immune system can no longer control HIV, it starts killing cells expressing the CD4 antigen. Of those cells, the most important types are the ___ cells which coordinate the immune response, and the ___ which engulf pathogenic bacteria
T-helper and macrophages
A disease that was prominent in the past, and whose incidence suddenly increases after a period of low incidence, is called a
Re-emerging
Which infectious agents are composed solely of RNA
Viroids
Cells continually exchange materials and information with their environment. This exchange is crucial
For all the processes occurring in a cell
The lipid bilayer that forms the core of all cell membranes is composed primarily of
Phospholipids
Which of the following is not one of the four main components of all plasma membranes?
Extracellular matrix
What type of microscope can be used to see the two phospholipid layers in a plasma membrane?
Electron
Although a eukaryotic cell membrane can contain many different lipids, they can be classified in three groups: glycerol phospholipids, ___, and ___. When answering the question think about the lipids found in membranes, not about all
the lipids that an organism makes!
Sphingolipids and sterols
In order to survive, grow, and reproduce, a cell must
Exchange materials and info with its environment
What makes up the bilayer of every cell membrane?
Phospholipids
When phospholipids are placed in water, they spontaneously form a bilayer with which of the following?
The polar heads on the surface and the non polar tails in the interior
What are the four main components of all eukaryotic membranes.
Interior protein network
Cell surface makers
Transmembrane proteins
Lipid bilayer
What is true about cell membranes
The degree of membrane fluidity caries depending on the composition of the membrane
Individual lipids and unanchored proteins are relatively free to move around laterally within the lipid bilayer