Viruses Flashcards
(NJCTL) A virus is a small … agent that can replicate only inside the … of organisms, though they are not organisms themselves
infectious; living cells
(NJCTL) Viruses are particles that are not considered living because they cannot perform all the functions of living things (e.g., …)
However, they share the same … and use the mechanism of host cells to …
metabolism; genetic code; reproduce
(NJCTL) T-even viruses have a … containing …, a …, …, a …/…, and … which are necessary for …
head; DNA; collar; sheath; base plate/end plate; tail fibers; attachment
(NJCTL) In biology viruses are important because their genetic and reproductive strategies use the same … but their use is unique. Scientists have learned a lot about genetics by understanding their strategies. In addition, their infectious nature makes them a threat that requires humans to understand how they work to create defensive technology.
molecular components
(NJCTL) H-spike allows flu/viruses to …
N-spike allows it to …
bubbles are … .
gain access; exit; virus particles budding
(NJCTL) immunity: have … that bind to … of viruses and .. them for destruction by way of …
antibodies; surface proteins; tag; macrophages
(NJCTL) The general mode of operation for all viruses is to:
infect a host cell with its …
hijack the molecular machinery of the host cell to … needed to ….
package the parts together to form new … for … from host cell
genetic information; manufacture the parts; build more viruses; viruses; release
(NJCTL) Viruses are …. parasites, which means they can reproduce only within a … Each virus has a …; it is limited by type of … that it can infect (due to similarities in … (?))
obligate intracellular; host cell; host range; host cells; glycoproteins
(NJCTL) Viruses use …, …, and other parts of the host cell to synthesize new viruses
enzymes; ribosomes
(NJCTL) zoonosis: virus can jump from … to …
this does not equate to …
species; species; pathogenicity
(NJCTL) viruses consist of 2 main macromolecules: … and ….
proteins; nucleic acids
(NJCTL) flus come from
birds
(NJCTL) the lytic cycle is a viral reproduction that causes the … of the host cell. It produces new … and digests the host’s … thereby releasing new viruses.
death; phages; cell wall
(NJCTL) Unlike the lytic cycle which is detrimental to the host cell, the … cell does not cause the cell to die
lysogenic
(NJCTL) In the lysogenic cycle, the virus’s DNA is … into the host’s … Then the bacteria cell continues to … through …, copying the … and its own together
incorporated; DNA; replicate; binary fission; viral DNA
(NJCTL) many viruses are only able to utilize the lytic cycle. Some viruses, called …, can utilize both the lytic and lysogenic cycles
temperate phages
(NJCTL) When a temperate phage switches from the lysogenic cycle to the lytic cycle, it separates its … from the …. and then proceeds through the steps of the … as usual
phage DNA; host DNA; lytic cycle
(NJCTL) temperate phages
however, sometimes when the virus DNA separates it takes with it some of the … –> …
bacteria’s DNA; transduction
(NJCTL) Viruses do not contain
ribosomes
(NJCTL) The lysogenic cycle increases … in a population of cells
genetic variation
(NJCTL) … phages are DNA viruses
T even
(NJCTL) some viruses use DNA as their genetic material. It does not contain …, so in order for it to reproduce it must inject its DNA into a cell so that it an be … by the host cell’s …
DNA polymerase; copied; polymerase
(NJCTL) An RNA virus is a virus that has … as its genetic material. This nucleic acid is usually … (ssRNA), but may be … (dsRNA). Some human diseases caused by RNA viruses include …, …, …, …, … and …, …
RNA; single-stranded; double-stranded; SARS; influenza; hep C; West Nile fever; polio; measles; smallpox
(NJCTL) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a vital … disease in humans. They are enveloped … that are pathogens of … and … This group of viruses causes … infections in a variety of animals, including humans
respiratory; RNA viruses; mammals; birds; respiratory tract
(NJCTL) A retrovirus is an RNA virus that replicates in a host cell, like … First it uses its own … enzyme to produce … from its …, reverse of the usual pattern, thus retro.
HIV; reverse transcriptase; DNA; RNA
(NJCTL) Retrovirus:
This new DNA is then incorporated into the host’s … by an … enzyme. The cell then treats the viral DNA as part of its own instructions, which it follows blindly, making the … required to assemble new copies of the virus.
Retro viruses have enzymes that allow access into …
HIV only access … cells
genome; integrase; proteins; nuclear envelope; T-helper
(NJCTL) Retro viruses are some of the most complex and believed to be the most advanced from an evolutionary perspective. For a virus, their entry system into cells is highly complex. They have systems to bypass the usual … of their host cell.
defenses
(NJCTL) CD4 receptor that HIV binds to is found only on … cells. For HIV, some RNA leaves the cell, others are used for … into enzymes like reverse transcriptase
T-helper; translation