Exam 8: Viruses and Infectious Particles

AIDS is a lifelong infection because ________.

Which of the following structures lacks protein?

Which of the following defines the nature of viruses?

Which patient age cohort was surprisingly susceptible to both H1N1 (1918) and the novel H1N1 (2009) influenza viruses?

Which of the following requires another virus to aid in its own replication?

Which strain of the flu was responsible for more than 20 million deaths in 1918 worldwide?

In specialized transduction, the resistance gene comes from the ________.

The viral capsid is made primarily of ________.

A viral tropism ________. (Select all that apply)

Which of the following does NOT trigger induction during the lysogenic cycle?

Bacteriophages are usually ________ viruses.

In which viral replication cycle does viral DNA integrate into the host genome, and is subsequently duplicated during host cell divisions?

The term Adenoviridae indicates a reference to a virus ________.

Most of the viruses with RNA as their nucleic acid replicate in the host's ________.

How do antiviral medications work? (Select all that apply)

This micrograph of virally-infected cells demonstrates the cytopathic effect known as ________.

The nucleocapsid refers to the ________.

The ability to infect the same hosts is ________.

Sometimes proviruses can convert normal cells into malignant cells. Viruses that cause this malignancy are referred to as ________.

Shingles is the result of reactivated ________.