Virus and Virus-Like Particle Vocab

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  1. 3. A virus-like particle that only consists of RNA and only observed to cause disease in plants
  2. 7. The enzyme that takes RNA and converts it into DNA (two words)
  3. 8. A host-derived plasma membrane that surrounds the capsid of certain viruses (two words)
  4. 10. Infectious agent (proteinaceous infectious particle) composed of protein that can replicate within a host cell and cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
  5. 11. Capsid and viral genome together
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  1. 1. A virus with no plasma membrane (two words)
  2. 2. Visible change in cellular morphology often associated with cell damage or death (two words)
  3. 4. Virus that infects bacteria
  4. 5. Protein structure surrounding the genome of a virus
  5. 6. Virus-like particle that replicates in host cell co-infected with helper virus and is detrimental to the helper virus
  6. 9. Generalized process for the uptake of external materials by cell membrane extension or invagination and fusion to form a vesicle inside the cytoplasm of the cell generally known as an endosome
  7. 12. Amount of virus needed to kill 50% of infected test subjects (three words)