Chapter 13: Viruses, Viroids, Prions Flashcards
Virus that infects bacteria, often called a phage. This is its real name
Bacteriophage
Infection in which the viral genome is present in the host cell but not active
No new particles being produced
Latent infection
A bacterium that carries phage DNA (prophage) integrated into its genome
Lysogen
A change in 1 or more of the properties of a bacterium upon acquiring a prophage
Lysogenic Conversion
A productive infection that causes the host cell to burst (lysis)
Lytic infection
Infectious protein that causes neurodegenerative disease
Prion
Viral infection in which more viral particles are produced
Productive infection
Infectious agent of plants that consist only of RNA
Viroid
Complete virus in its inert non-replicating form outside a host cell; also referred to as a viral particle
Virion
The genome in virus maybe linear or circular
Single or double stranded
T or F
T
Protein coat that surronds the nucleic acid of a virus
Capsid
Protein units that form a capsid are called
Capsomeres
Viral nucleic acid and its protein coat(caspid) are called
Nucleocapsid
Structures on the outside of the virion that bind to host cell receptors
Spikes
Some viruses have an outer lipid bilayer called an envelope, others don’t.
Does this make them more or less susceptible to soaps and other disinfectants.
Why
More susceptible
The chemicals bind to the lipid layer removing the spikes
Phages are typically enveloped or non-enveloped
Non-enveloped
Non-enveloped viruses consist of (name the parts)
Capsomere
Nucleocaspid (nucleic acid and caspid)
Spikes
Enveloped viruses consist of (name parts)
Spikes
Matrix protein
Nucleocaspid (Nucleic acid & caspid)
Envelope
3 shapes of viruses. Describe shape
Icosahedral
Helical
Complex
Icosahedral: Soccer ball like
Helical: spiral stair case
Complex: Mixture of the two. Tradional Virus shape
What is analogous to Domain in Viruses
Realm
What does the suffix-viridae mean
virus
Are virus names capitalized or italicized
No
Arhtropod-borne RNA virus, carried by vectors such as mosquitoes
Arbovirus
Entric viruses come from what
Feces. Named after “entero” system or intestines