Virus and Virus-Like Particle Vocab
Across
- 3. A virus-like particle that only consists of RNA and only observed to cause disease in plants
- 7. The enzyme that takes RNA and converts it into DNA (two words)
- 8. A host-derived plasma membrane that surrounds the capsid of certain viruses (two words)
- 10. Infectious agent (proteinaceous infectious particle) composed of protein that can replicate within a host cell and cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
- 11. Capsid and viral genome together
Down
- 1. A virus with no plasma membrane (two words)
- 2. Visible change in cellular morphology often associated with cell damage or death (two words)
- 4. Virus that infects bacteria
- 5. Protein structure surrounding the genome of a virus
- 6. Virus-like particle that replicates in host cell co-infected with helper virus and is detrimental to the helper virus
- 9. Generalized process for the uptake of external materials by cell membrane extension or invagination and fusion to form a vesicle inside the cytoplasm of the cell generally known as an endosome
- 12. Amount of virus needed to kill 50% of infected test subjects (three words)