Virus Vocabulary

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  1. 6. a lytic infection, the virus enters the host cell, makes a copy of itself, and causes the cell to burst
  2. 7. a small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comblike plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans
  3. 8. proteins that are on the surface of each cell. They act as little receivers
  4. 9. made up of protein subunits called capsomere
  5. 10. another term for mirid
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  1. 1. virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it
  2. 2. temperate or non-virulent infection, does not kill the host cell, instead using it as a refuge where it exists in a dormant state
  3. 3. substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases
  4. 4. a group of RNA viruses which insert a DNA copy of their genome into the host cell in order to replicate
  5. 5. virulent infection, the infecting phage ultimately kill the host cell to produce many of their own progeny