viruses Flashcards
living charachters of viruses
have own genetic material
reproduce using host machinery
intracellular obligate parasites
destroyed by uv rays
non living charachteristics
lack cellular structure
dont have metabolic machinery of their own
can be crystallixzed
inert infectious particle outside the host
capsomeres are
protein subunits
herpes virus has
162 capsomers
adenoviruses has
252 capsomeres
viruses range in size from
250nm of pox viruses to 20nm of parvoviruses
bacteriophage that infects ecoli
Ttype
hydrophobia is caused by
rabies virus
viral core contains how many strands of HIV RNA
TWO single STRANDS
opportunistics disease
recurrent pneumonia, pulmonary tb , toxoplasmosis
hep A
non enveloped RNA
hep B
DNA virus enveloped
hep C
RNA enveloped virus
herpes simplex virus
DNA enveloped
influenza virus
RNA virus enveloped