Downloaded 40 times
Uploaded byAlbert
Viruses
The document discusses different types of viruses including rhinovirus, influenza, bacteriophage, DNA viruses, RNA viruses, retroviruses, and how they spread and replicate. It also mentions viral diseases, vectors, and reassortment which is how multiple viral strains in a host can combine to form new strains.
More Related Content
Viruses
- 1.
- 4.
- 6.
- 7. 10 genes spread byrunny nose elicits strong immune response
- 8.
- 9.
- 10. 10 genes birds carryhuman and nonhuman strains spread by runny nose, cough and...
- 12.
- 13. infect bacteria spread bylysing bacteria
- 14.
- 18.
- 19.
- 24. Example of aDNA virus
- 25.
- 27. genome consists ofRNA genome copied by RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
- 28. RdRP is error-prone producingmutations that may lead to new strains
- 29.
- 30.
- 31. genome consists ofRNA RNA turned into DNA by reverse transcriptase DNA integrated into host’s DNA by integrase
- 34.
- 35.
- 36. Reassortment when hosts infectedwith multiple strains combine genes from those strains to produce a new strain