virus vocabulary

2. another term for mirid.
4. site A molecular site or the docking port on the surface of, or within, a cell, usually involving proteins that are capable of recognizing and binding with specific molecules.
7. a virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it.
8. cycle The lytic cycle is one of the two cycles of viral reproduction, the other being the lysogenic cycle.
10. a small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comblike plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans.

1. A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease.
3. cycle one of two cycles of viral reproduction.
5. Coat the protein coat is made up of protein subunits called capsomere. Additional layer of lipid molecules may envelope the protein coat.
6. any of a group of RNA viruses which insert a DNA copy of their genome into the host cell in order to replicate, e.g. HIV.
9. reproduction —A Lytic Infection. Let's look at what happens when a virus attacks our cells.