Genetic Viruses Andres Avila

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  1. 2. any of a group of picornaviruses including those which cause some forms of the common cold.
  2. 5. spreads through respiratory secretions, such as saliva, sputum, or nasal mucus, when an infected person coughs or sneezes
  3. 6. an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family.
  4. 7. a family of negative-strand RNA viruses
  5. 8. a very contagious virus that causes diarrhea.
  6. 10. a severe form of viral hepatitis transmitted in infected blood, causing fever, debility, and jaundice.
  7. 13. people with very weak immune systems, the virus can bring on a serious brain infection
  8. 15. a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring.
  9. 17. cause mononucleosis or hepatitis (liver problem).
  10. 18. A member of a family of viruses that can cause infections in the respiratory tract, eye, and gastrointestinal tract.
  11. 20. a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic.
  12. 21. a family of double-stranded RNA viruses.
  13. 22. affecting the skin (often with blisters) or the nervous system.
  14. 24. naked viruses are defined as tiny viruses that do not have a lipid envelope.
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  1. 1. A member of a family of viruses that can cause infections in the respiratory tract, eye, and gastrointestinal tract.
  2. 3. Member viruses infect arthropods, plants, protozoans, and vertebrates.
  3. 4. can cause severe hemorrhagic fever in people and nonhuman primates
  4. 9. a family of viruses whose members are generally associated with rodent-transmitted diseases in humans.
  5. 11. infect a wide variety of hosts, including vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants
  6. 12. an acute, often fatal, form of hemorrhagic fever.
  7. 14. enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses.
  8. 15. a category in biological classification ranking below a family and above a genus.
  9. 16. a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains.
  10. 17. an infectious disease causing a mild fever and a rash of itchy inflamed blisters.
  11. 19. a conventional icosahedral or helical structure that is surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane
  12. 23. A type of virus that has RNA instead of DNA as its genetic material.