Virus Crossword

4. Copying process by which a cell makes viral DNA/RNA for new viruses
5. A harmless variant of a pathogen that teaches a host's immune system to defend against the pathogen
8. The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells
10. The cell that a virus attaches to take it over and replicate
11. A virus that has crown-shaped surface markers
12. Anything that can cause a disease
13. The Infectious agent that causes AIDS is a retrovirus
15. The limited range of host cells that each type of virus can infect
16. Markers Things on the outside of a virus that works like the key to find the cell it can infect
19. A type of viral (phage) replication cycle resulting in the release of the new phases by lysis (and death) of the host cell

1. Proteins that attach to the virus, and destroy them
2. An RNA virus that reproduces by transcribing its RNA into DNA and then inserting the DNA into a cellular chromosome it can hide from your immune system
3. Consists of the skin, mucous, membranes, hair, and nail
6. A virus that infects bacteria
7. The place and a host cell that acts as the lock to either let viruses in or not
8. A virus that causes the flu
9. This occurs when the virus attaches to its host. This is the moment in which the virus recognizes the host as a cell to infect and will inject viral DNA or RNA into the host
14. A nonliving pathogen that infects living cells must use the Machinery of a host cell to replicate and evolve
17. The protein coat that surrounds the nucleic acid/genetic information of a virus
18. When a virus enters a host cell