viruses 2
Terms
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- Virus is Latin for ____?
- Poison
- Scientist credited with discovering the first virus
- Stanley
- The type of virus that attacks bacteria.
- Bacteiophage
- The name of the first discovered virus
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Tobacco mosaic virus
- White blood cells that engulf an destroy disease.
- Phagocytes
- The stage of the lytic cycle in which the viral dna is injected to the host cell
- Entry
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Diagnosis
symptoms: watery discharge from nose, fatigue and scratchiness of the throat - Common Cold
- The stage of the Lytic cycle in which virus particles are put together.
- Assembly
- A protein that viruses produce that blocks the reproductive process and slows down the progress of infection.
- Interferon
- Type of core in a virus
- Nucleic acid-either DNA or RNA
- Type of RNA virus in which RNA takes over the DNA and makes new viruses.
- Retrovirus
- What scientists use to be able to see viruses
- Electron microscope
- Type of contact in which someone touches an infected person.
- Direct contact
- The reproductive cycle of virulent viruses
- Lytic Cycle
- The area on a host cell where a virus attaches.
- receptor site
- Type of dormant virus that is formed when the viral DNA joins with the host cell DNA.
- Provirus
- What means "influence of the stars"?
- Influenza
- Protein part of a virus that may cause: Mad cow disease, and Kuru.
- Prion
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Diagnosis
Symptoms: Fever, cough, red rash
Prevention: Vaccination - Measles
- The name of the virus that was killed by mass immunizations.
- Small pox
- What are used to grow viruses for vaccines?
- chicken eggs
- The viral disease that President Roosevelt contracted that causes paralysis and even death.
- Polio
- Viruses are used to treat what type of diseases?
- Genetic disorders
- An RNA strand that causes disease in plants.
- Viroid
- Dead or weakened pathogens that are given to prevent diseases.
- Vaccinations
- Where is the Centers for Disease Control located?
- Atlanta, Moscow
- The chemical produced by viruses during replication that slows down the reproductive process of a virus.
- interferon
- Viruses reproduce inside ______
- Host Cells
- The area where a virus attaches to a host cell
- receptor site
- Chicken Pox and ______ both come from the same virus.
- Shingles
- The part of the influenza virus that changes often so our immune system doesn't recognize it
- protein coat
- Type of virus that does not cause disease immediately.
- Temperate
- Rabies attacks these cells in the body
- Nerve
- HIV causes ?
- AIDs
- White blood cells that produce antibodies.
- Lymphocytes
- The type of viruses that causes disease immediately.
- Virulent
- The breaking open of a host cell during viral infection.
- Lysis