Virus Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. any virus from the family retroviridae of single-stranded RNA viruses that produce reverse transcriptase by means which DNA is produced using their RNA as a template and incorporated into the genome of infected cells that are often tumorigenic
  2. 3. a coat of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus
  3. 4. virus that infects bacteria
  4. 7. the protein shell of a virus particle surrounding its nucleic acid
  5. 9. virus life cycle where they infect a bacteria, but don’t kill the host and the bacteria’s genome is altered so it can reproduce the virus when it reproduces
Down
  1. 1. the point of attachment to cell membranes/ component of a cell surface that reacts to certain molecules
  2. 2. the production of viruses during the infection of a host cell
  3. 5. misfolded proteins that can transmit their misfolded shape to normal variants of the same protein
  4. 6. killed, living attenuated, or fully living microorganisms that are injected into a subject to boost the subjects immunity towards a particular disease
  5. 8. virus life cycle where they infect the bacteria and kill it to produce many virus offspring