Viruses

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• How do viruses relate to the characteristics of life?
• What are viruses?
• Why do bacteriophages only infect bacteria?
• How can prions be killed?
• How are prions related to proteins?
• What are some examples of prions?
• What are some examples of bacteriophages?
• Why are virus capsids symmetrical?
• What is the function of the capsid?
• What are some examples of virions?
• What are some examples of plant viroids?
• Is it true that viruses cannot be killed with antibiotics?
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• Is virus a living or non-living thing?
• How do viruses cause infections in organisms?
• What are the antigens on the surface of viruses?
• What are bacteriophages?
• How are viruses good and bad?
• How are viruses transmitted?
• Are there any cures for viruses?
• What is the role of viruses in cancer?
• Do all viruses cause fever?
• Why don't antibiotics work on viruses?
• What are some uses of viruses?
• What domain are viruses classified under?
• Are viruses irritable, as in "capable of responding to a stimuli"?
• How do viruses go away?
• What do viruses actually do to the human body?
• Why do viruses mutate?
• Why aren't viruses living?
• Why are viruses not classified into a domain?
• Why are viruses harmful?
• Why is a virus hard to kill?
• Why are viruses considered parasites?
• What viruses cause warts?
• What viruses cause mononucleosis?
• Who discovered the cure for a smallpox?
• What is the full form of AIDS?
• Paralysis does not get cured: is it true?
• Where do people get exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus? What is the Epstein-Barr virus?
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• What is the outside of a virus made of?
• How can viruses have ssDNA ?How would the replication of ssDNA inside a host cell work ?
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• What is a painful disease caused by a virus that affects the nervous system called?
• What virus causes cold sores?
• What type of pathogen is malaria?
• How might viruses help cure genetic diseases?
• Do all viruses have spikes?
• Why is it ineffective to treat viral disease with antibiotics?
• Why are viruses called obligate intracellular parasites?
• What do we call a virus that attacks a bacterium?
• Where must a virus be to complete its reproductive cycle?
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• In general, is the genetic material in a virus inside or outside the protein parts?
• Why are antibiotics ineffective with viruses?
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• What makes up a viral capsid?
• How does a virus harm a cell?
• What type of medications are used to treat viruses?
• How do viruses harm cells?
• What is one property of viruses that makes it ditticult to cure viral infections?
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• Are viruses cells?
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• What is the outer coat of proteins called that surrounds the core of a virus?
• Which of the following is a characteristic of a virus?
• The term that describes a viruses life cycle where the virus lysis the host cell to release its offspring is called?
• Write any three differences between virus and fungi?