Exam 8: Viruses and Infectious Particles

Which of the following statements regarding the progression of an HIV infection is accurate?

Identify the mismatched infection/pathogen pair.

The structure of viroids can be characterized as ________.

The delta agent that co-infects liver cells with the hepatitis B virus is an example of a ________.

Why does the viral classification system differ from that of eukaryotes?

Bacteriophage DNA inserted into the bacterial host genome during the lysogenic cycle is known as a ________.

What process facilitates the entry of bacteriophage DNA into a bacterial host cell?

A retrovirus belongs to a group of ________ viruses that insert a ________ copy of their genome into the host cell in order to reproduce.

An unusual side effect of taking protease inhibitors to treat a viral infection is ________.

The purpose of phage therapy is ________.

Lysogenic conversion can cause the host bacterium to become more virulent to human patients because ________.

What is the normal function of PrPc, or prion protein in mammal cells?

The misfolded form of prion protein, or PrPsc, causes degeneration by ________.

Prions are made of ________.

Lysogenic conversion of ________ by a temperate phage can cause toxic shock syndrome in an infected patient.

The picture below shows the first step in the process of ________.

Viruses are not generally referred to as living things, because they ________.

The binding of protein spikes on the viral surface with complementary receptor sites on the host cell membrane is referred to as ________.

Hepatitis infection can be caused by which viral types? (Select all that apply.)

The most sophisticated viral morphology belongs to the infectious particles that primarily infect ________.