HIV/AIDS
Across
- 3. 2 types of these to bind to cells
- 6. AIDS
- 7. eventally this happens to the DNA replicating the HIV DNA as well
- 9. what is both the enzymes and RNA surrounded by 2 layers of?
- 13. the phrase used to describe how HIV and viruses leave the cell
- 15. what AIDS can cause through cancer-kaposi's syndrome or degenerative disease (brain)
- 16. does HIV always have an effect?
- 17. RNA converted to DNA using this
- 20. immune system produces these in blood
- 21. genetic material is RNA, contains enzymes to help with replication eg reverse transcriptase
- 22. where does HIV replicate?
Down
- 1. an example of what the immune system can no longer fight as it has become weak
- 2. contact with what is thought to be the cause of the virus in the early 20th century?
- 4. where can antibodies not go?
- 5. HIV, first recognised in the 1980s
- 8. stage one of replication
- 10. DNA incorporated into host cells ........... so it is replicated if the cell divides
- 11. antibody production is ....... as t-helper cells are needed to stimulate b-cells and other t-cells
- 12. host cells membrane that is taken with it as it leaves the cell(viral envelope)
- 14. where is the only place that HIV particles can be attacked? This also indicated that a person is HIV positive
- 18. is the number of new viruses formed high or low?
- 19. HIV causes the functioning of t-helper cells to ........