Exam 6: Virus Structure and Function

__________ diseases are unique in that they can be transmitted by an infective protein that propagates conformational change of existing molecules without synthesizing entirely new infective molecules.

Proteomic analysis predicts seven major evolutionary categories of phage species with subgroups based on:

What is necessary for bacteriophage and animal virus entry into a cell? How does that differ from plant viral entry?

Virus particles can be observed by standard transmission microscopy (TEM), but details of capsid structure require visualization by:

__________ are genes of common ancestry in two genomes that share the same function.

David Baltimore proposed that the primary distinction among classes of viruses was the __________ composition and the route used to express messenger RNA.

Why was the advent of tissue culture heralded as the end of the "monkey era"? What types of things are we able to do with it?

Large __________ viruses contain so many enzymes that they appear to have evolved from degenerate cells.

If something descended from a common ancestor, it is:

The papillomavirus is an example of:

Degenerate viral genomes from ancient viral insertions take up __________ the human genome.

The integrated phage genome is called a/an __________.

Viruses may be classified by the __________ method.

What is the viral envelope composed of? How does it differ from the bacterial cell envelope?

The myxovirus was introduced to Australia to control the rabbit population. How does the virus keep the rabbit population relatively low without killing all of the rabbits?

Which of the following is false concerning HIV?

Which of the following is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and one of the most common worldwide?

The RNA genome of the potato spindle tuber viroid requires which type of host polymerase to replicate itself?

Which of the following is incorrect about the giant Mimivirus?

Why are viruses NOT affected by antibiotics? Why are there so few antiviral drugs?