Across
- 2. to use bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections
- 3. a bacteria that can share some properties with viruses, such as intracellular parasitism and inability to filter them
- 6. sometimes called a phage, a virus that infects bacteria
- 11. the approximate size (nm) of the smallest viruses
- 12. inside the cell
- 13. a signalling protein released by the host cell in response to a virus so neighbouring cells will heighten defences
Down
- 1. the virus will use the host cell’s ______ to create proteins and harvest energy
- 4. an area on the exterior of a cell (on the plasma membrane, flagella, or cell wall) that viruses chemically bind to with hydrogen bonds
- 5. the appropirate unit for describing the size of viruses
- 7. the spectrum of cells a virus can infect, usually one type of cell from a specific species of host
- 8. an obligatory intracellular parasite that contains one type of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat, multiply within living cells, and direct synthesis of structures that can move their genetic information into other cells
- 9. kill tumor cells in cancer
- 10. the host range of viruses as a parasite is typically ______