Viruses

3. Sometimes viruses have an external
7. Damage to host cell by virus (CPEs)
11. Areas where virus-infected cells have been destroyed
12. Viruses are…than most cells
13. These reside on virus surfaces and give them high specificity for attachment to host cell
15. External protein shell
16. Virus-like agents that affect plants

1. A fully formed virus, able to establish an infection in a host cell
2. Seen as a possible solution to killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria
4. Viruses must invade a specific…to make and release new viruses
5. The first discovery of viruses occurred in
6. When bacteriophages infect, but remain dormant, not destroying the target cell, it’s called the…cycle
8. You need this specific kind of microscope to view viruses
9. Composed of protein - no nucleic acid
10. 20% of these are viruses!
14. Viruses lack…for most metabolic processes