Virus Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. group of viruses that infect a specific bacteria usually causing their dissolution
  2. 8. formation of biological viruses during the infection process in the target host cells
  3. 10. coat of proteins surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus
Down
  1. 1. results in the destruction of the infected cell and its membrane
  2. 2. integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome or formation of a circular replicon in the bacterial cytoplasm
  3. 3. biological agents that elicit an immune response to a specific antigen derived from an infectious disease-causing pathogen
  4. 4. the coiled structure composed of proteins that incloses the nucleic acid of a virus
  5. 5. virus that inserts a copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades
  6. 7. proteins typically found on the surface of cells, which are capable of recognizing and bonding to specific molecules
  7. 9. misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the same protein