final Flashcards
(115 cards)
what is the perspective of viruses?
- there is no agreement on where they came from
- they are the most abundant microbes
what are the characteristics of a viruses life?
- cells are constructed of the same kind of atoms and molecules according to the same laws of energy
- all life forms contain molecules of life
- DNA encodes information
- life evolves
what are the properties of viruses?
- dont independently fulfill the characteristics of life
- DNA or RNA
- lack enzyme-lack machinery
what characteristics determine the type of virus?
- size
- shape
- genome
- other structures
size of viruses
-ultramicroscopic
what two types of structures can viruses have?
enveloped and naked
what is the shape of viruses?
they all have capsids
what are the two structural capsid types?
helical and icosahedral
helical cpasids
continous helical shape
icosahedral capsids
20 sides and 12 even spaces
atypical virus
deviation of the structure, most bacteriophages
enveloped structures
have spikes that attach to capuls
viral genome
- either DNA or RNA, never both
- carries information to change cell
DNA
double or single stranded
RNA
double or single stranded, and segmented
positive snese RNA
the genome is ready for translation
negative sense RNA
must be covered to be ready
polymerases
synthesize DNA or RNA
replicases
copy RNA
reverse transcriptase
synthesis of DNA from RNA
viron
complete infectious particle
what are the virus classifications?
- nucleic acid type
- presence or absence of envelope
- capsid symmetry
- dimensions of virion and capsid
family
basic biology
disease name
important most common way of identifying a virus