Virus Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. A Lytic Infection
  2. 6. A small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comblike plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans
  3. 7. Results in the destruction of the infected cell and its membrane. Bacteriophages that only use the lytic cycle are called virulent phages
  4. 8. Proteins that are on the surface of each cell. They act as little receivers (or ears) that listen to the messages of the chemical messenger molecules as they float in the intercellular fluid surrounding every cell.
  5. 9. Protein shell of a virus
Down
  1. 1. Additional layer of lipid molecules may envelope the protein coat
  2. 2. Characterized by integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome or formation of a circular replicon in the bacterial cytoplasm
  3. 3. Virus that infects bacteria
  4. 4. A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
  5. 5. Any of a group of RNA viruses which insert a DNA copy of their genome into the host cell in order to replicate