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initiators of cancer
mass producing
can cause tumors
caused by a binding of a piece of the viral dna to the nucleus of the host |
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| regulate cellular genomes |
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comes packaged with each virus particle
synthesizes a single stranded dna against the viral rna template and then directs the formation of a complementary strand of its ssdna resulting in a doiuble strand of viral dna |
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| virus-induced damage to the cell that alters its microscopic appearance |
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| what is common to see in a damaged cell(due to virions) |
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| inclusion bodies, or compacted masses of viruses or damaged cell organelles in nucleus or cytoplasm |
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| fusion of multiple host cells into single large cels containing multiple nuclei |
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| what are persistant infections |
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| a type of infection in which the virus is carried by the host cell yet the host cell is not destroyed |
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| name a few viruses that are usually in a chronic latent state in which they periodically become reactivated |
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| hpv-herpes zoster virus(chickenpox & shingles) |
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| what are the oncogenic effects on the host cell termed? |
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| mammalian viruses capable of initiating tomors |
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| who were bacterial viruses discovered by |
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| what type of dna do most phages contain |
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| the most widely studied bacteriophage |
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| undergo adsorption and penetration into the bacterial host but are not replicated or released immediately |
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| what do temperate phages do instead of replication |
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| enter inactive prophage state during which it is inserted into the bacterial chromosome |
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| host chromosome carries bacteriophage dna |
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| process in which the prophage in a lysogenic cell will be activated and progress directly into viral replication and the lytic cycle |
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| when a bacterium acquires a new trait from its temperate phage? |
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| what bacteria was lysogenic conversion discovered in? |
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| corynebacterium diptheriae |
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| phages serve as transporters of bacterial genes from one bacterium to another and can play a profound role in bacterial genetics |
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| dinstinct portein fibrils in teh brain tissue |
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