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| a virus that infects prokaryotic cells |
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| the protein shell that surrounds the genome of a virus particle in a highly repetitive pattern |
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| a virus that relies on another virus, the helper virus, to provide some of its components |
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| a protein synthesized soon after virus infection and before replication of the virus genome |
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| a virus that provides some necessary components for a defective virus |
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| a cell inside which a virus replicates |
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| a 3-D figure with 20 triangular faces |
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| a protein synthesized later in virus infection, after replication of the virus genome |
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| a bacterium containing a prophage |
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| a state in which a viral genome is replicated as a prophage along with the genome of the host |
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| a series of steps after virus infection that leads to virus replication and destruction of the host cell |
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| a virus with a single-stranded genome that has the opposite sense to the viral mRNA |
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| the complex of nucleic acid and proteins of a virus |
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| a zone of lysis or growth inhibition caused by a virus infection of a lawn of sensitive host cell |
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| a virus with a single-stranded genome that has the same complementarity as the viral mRNA |
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| an infectious protein whose extracellular form contains no nucleic acid |
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| the lysogenic form of a bacterial virus |
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| the genome of a temperate or latent virus when it is replicating in step with the host chromosome |
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| a virus whose RNA genome is replicated via a DNA intermediate |
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| the enzyme that makes a DNA copy using RNA as template |
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| the process of copying information found in RNA into DNA |
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| a virus whose genome can replicate along with that of its host without causing cell death, in a state called Lysogeny |
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| in eukaryotes, a process by which a normal cell becomes a cancer cell |
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| Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) |
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| a degenerative disease of the brain cause by prion infection |
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| the infectious virus particle; the viral genome surrounded by a protein coat and sometimes other layers |
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| a virus that lyses or kills the hose cell after infection; a nontemperate virus |
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| a genetic element containing either RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein capsid and that replicates only inside host cells |
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| a small, circular, single-stranded RNA that causes certain plant diseases |
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| number of infectious units per volume of fluid |
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| Phases of Viral Replication |
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Attachment - adsorption
Entry - penetration
Synthesis
Assembly - maturation
Release |
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