Viruses

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Across
  1. 2. the act of the virus injecting its DNA/RNA into the host cell
  2. 3. the environmental changes that cause the lysogenic cycle to switch to the lytic cycle.
  3. 6. a single celled organism that is smaller than the cells in our bodies.
  4. 8. the legs of a virus that attach to a cell before infection
  5. 9. the instructions inside of a virus that tell the cell what to do.
  6. 10. the smallest living unit.
Down
  1. 1. the long virus infection cycle where the DNA/RNA of the virus integrates into the cell's DNA.
  2. 4. the short virus infection cycle that tells the cell to make more viruses
  3. 5. the cell's first defense to keep invaders out of their insides.
  4. 7. an infective entity that injects its DNA/RNA into cells. It is not living
  5. 10. the protein outer shell that contains the viruses' DNA/RNA.