Virus vocab

6. a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea
8. cannot replicate on their own, but rather depend on their host cell's protein synthesis pathways to reproduce
10. capsid constitutes their surface, which houses the viral genome

1. results in the destruction of the infected cell and its membrane
2. integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome or formation of a circular replicon in the bacterial cytoplasm
3. a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
4. the protein coat or shell of a virus particle, surrounding the nucleic acid or nucleoprotein core.
5. a virus that uses RNA as its genetic material
7. proteins typically found on the surface of cells, which are capable of recognizing and bonding to specific molecules
9. misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the same protein