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Published 09/28/2024 What type of parasites are viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What kinda matrial can be found in viruses what is the function of this matrial?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a virion?
Published 09/28/2024 What does a virion consist of?
Published 09/28/2024 What do the nucleic acids encode for?
Published 09/28/2024 Tell me how virus have a variety of distinct morphologies, genome sizes and particle sizes.
Published 09/28/2024 What are some of the functions of the virion proteins?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a capsid?
Published 09/28/2024 What is an envelop?
Published 09/28/2024 What essential functions do virues lack?
Published 09/28/2024 What do viruses do when they infect the cell?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the very first thing that happen when a virus enters a cell?
Published 09/28/2024 Define encapsdidate
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 3 diffrent forms (shapes) that viral genomes can apper in?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 4 major traits for virus classification?
Published 09/28/2024 Viruses are the only form of ‘life’ that can use RNA as a genome what are 2 issues with this?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a retrovirus?
Published 09/28/2024 What is zoonotic spread?
Published 09/28/2024 Viruses are the most abundent biological entites - put this into perspective.
Published 09/28/2024 What is the smallest virus we know?
Published 09/28/2024 What are some discoveries that came up with the study of viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 How are virues so specific remeber they can only infect one cell type and sometimes one host
Published 09/28/2024 What did Dimitri Ivanovski and Martinus Beijernck do?
Published 09/28/2024 What did the discovery of Tobacco Mosaic Virus show?
Published 09/28/2024 What are bacteriophages?
Published 09/28/2024 What is + strand virus?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a - strand protein?
Published 09/28/2024 What did phages contribute to science?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the Hershey and Chase Experiment in detail
Published 09/28/2024 What is filter sterilazation?
Published 09/28/2024 How where viruses stuided in the past?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a plaque assay?
Published 09/28/2024 How is bactiral growth measured? 
Published 09/28/2024 What is the basic cycle that happen when viruses infect a bactitra?
Published 09/28/2024 Why are serial dilutions used for plaque assays?
Published 09/28/2024 What are plaque forming units (PFU)?
Published 09/28/2024 How do we calculate the true number of viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 How do eukaryotes grow and what is a downside of this?
Published 09/28/2024 Say we have a stained eukaryotic monolayer what would happen when viruses are introduced?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the formula of PFU?
Published 09/28/2024 Why are red blood cells used for assaying viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a hemagglutination assay?
Published 09/28/2024 Why do viruses infected RBCs clump?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the limitation of hemagglutination assays?
Published 09/28/2024 What is hemagglutinating unit?
Published 09/28/2024 How can we count viruses using an electron microscope?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the issue with eletron microsopy?
Published 09/28/2024 Are all physical particles infectious?
Published 09/28/2024 What are somethings that can make a virus defective?
Published 09/28/2024 What are latent infections?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the MOI?
Published 09/28/2024 How are virus replication cycles stuided?
Published 09/28/2024 Why do we synchronize events of virus replication?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the formula for MOI?
Published 09/28/2024 What is virus titer?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the alternate formula for MOI?
Published 09/28/2024 Why do we wash away the infection medium after 1 hour.
Published 09/28/2024 What are some ways we can analyze results for infectous viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 When we drop in the virus into the medium what is the very very first thing that we see?
Published 09/28/2024 Why is there a lag phase right after dropping the virus in why does virus concentration not increase immidiatly?
Published 09/28/2024 When are the viruses realsed out of the cells?
Published 09/28/2024 How can we measure the comopenets of the viruses like the mRNA, proteins, and genomes
Published 09/28/2024 What are the common features of the viral replication cycle?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the point of early gene expresstion?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the point of late gene expression?
Published 09/28/2024 What is an example of non-specific binding?
Published 09/28/2024 What is specific binding?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the concept of RNA dependent RNA polyermase?
Published 09/28/2024 Other than replications what is another function of early proteins?
Published 09/28/2024 Other than sturtural proteins what other proteins are made by late gene expresion?
Published 09/28/2024 Once we have enough progeny virons produced what might happen?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the baltimore classification of viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the main things that viruses must be able to do?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a nucleocapsid?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the diffrence between the capsid and nucleocapsid?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the capsids made of in terms of structure? (Yes proteins but more specfically)
Published 09/28/2024 What is genetic economy?
Published 09/28/2024 Are cubes and tetrahedron possible in virus geometry if so give an example.
Published 09/28/2024 What is the most common shape in virus?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the diffrent types of symmtry in a virus particle?
Published 09/28/2024 Say we have a 5000 nucleotides in a ssDNA, what is the coding capcity?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a jelly roll ß barrel fold?
Published 09/28/2024 Are viruses smooth?
Published 09/28/2024 The more complex capsids have repeating subunit interactions in a quasai equvilent way. What does this mean?
Published 09/28/2024 How are viruses with helical symmetry organized?
Published 09/28/2024 For negitive strand RNA viruses how does the genome wind?
Published 09/28/2024 What kinda symmetery do bactriphages contain?
Published 09/28/2024 What is an advantage of helical nucleocapsids?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 2 parameters that define symmetry of a helical capsid?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the pitch of the helix?
Published 09/28/2024 Where are viral glycoproteins found?
Published 09/28/2024 How does a virus get an evelop in the first place?
Published 09/28/2024 What fuction does the envelop provide?
Published 09/28/2024 How does an envelop form?
Published 09/28/2024 Give exmaples as to how the lipid content of the envelop (lipid bilayer)
Published 09/28/2024 What are the traits of the evelope viral glycoproteins?
Published 09/28/2024 How are envelop proteins synthesized?
Published 09/28/2024 What does the glucosylation of the external domain do?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a type I intergral membrane protein?
Published 09/28/2024 What are Type II intergral membrane proteins?
Published 09/28/2024 What signaling sequence does the Type I membrane proteins use?
Published 09/28/2024 What signaling sequence does the Type II membrane proteins use?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the variables that determine capsid assembly?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the function of scaffolding protein?
Published 09/28/2024 What are procapsids
Published 09/28/2024 What do packing signals do?
Published 09/28/2024 What are core proteins?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the ectodomain
Published 09/28/2024 How is the budding of viruses driven?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the funcation of the tails in the viral glycoproteins?
Published 09/28/2024 When a nucleocapsid is assembled in the cytoplasm and binds to the cytoplasmic tails of envelop proteins what happens next?
Published 09/28/2024 How does the virus know when to stop filling up the procapsid with the viral genome?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a concatemer?
Published 09/28/2024 How do proteins interacting with nucltides recognize the the viral genome?
Published 09/28/2024 For some helical viruses why does the capsid forms around the RNA at the same time the RNA is synthesized?
Published 09/28/2024 How does the curvature form in the membrane for virus budding?
Published 09/28/2024 What do the matrix proteins do?
Published 09/28/2024 In HIV what happens when the gag protein is cleaved?
Published 09/28/2024 Retroviruses can make bald particles what are those?
Published 09/28/2024 What does gag stand for and what do they do (gag proteins)
Published 09/28/2024 What is needed for the final pinch off in terms of virus budding?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the common ways that viruses dissembe themselves in proteolytic ways?
Published 09/28/2024 What are methods of viron disassmebly 
Published 09/28/2024 Virions are energtically metastable what does this mean?
Published 09/28/2024 Can assembly and disassbmly be reversed? If so how?
Published 09/28/2024 What are virus classifications based on?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the suffix for faimilies in terms of virus?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the genera suffix for viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 5 molecular criteria used to classify viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 Are viruses genetically or evolutionarly realted to us?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 6 types of virus hosts?
Published 09/28/2024 What does a virus species share?
Published 09/28/2024 How are viruses grouped using genera?
Published 09/28/2024 How are plant viruses named?
Published 09/28/2024 How are insect virsus named?
Published 09/28/2024 How many proteins are encoded very 1000 nucliotides
Published 09/28/2024 What is a generilzation of ssDNA viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What is are generalizations for dsDNA virsues?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a generilzation for negitive strand RNA viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a generalization for positive strand RNA Virus?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a major down side of ssRNA genome viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 All known RNA virius have ____   ______
Published 09/28/2024 What are some triats about most negitive strand RNA viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What traits do doubled stranded RNA viruses have
Published 09/28/2024 In the early stages of life how did viruses evolve?
Published 09/28/2024 What are some simple and common traits of viroids and RNA virueses?
Published 09/28/2024 How did RNA viruses transistion to the DNA world? What was an advantage of this?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 4 things that are involved with self replicating RNA viruses? 
Published 09/28/2024 How did small and medium size DNA viruses arise?
Published 09/28/2024 How did large DNA virisuses arise?
Published 09/28/2024 In the small and medium sized genomes what did there limited number of viral genes encode for?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 7 major virus groups?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the overall mission of a virus??
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 4 general steps to virus entry?
Published 09/28/2024 How do enveloped viruses enter?
Published 09/28/2024 How do non-enveloped viruses enter?
Published 09/28/2024 How do nonenvelop viruses enter without rupturing the membrane?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 2 steps of entry of enveloped viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a unique mechinism of transcription regarding dsRNA genomes?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a fragmented genome?
Published 09/28/2024 Why are dsRNA genomes have a borad range of host? 
Published 09/28/2024 What direction is the DNA templete read?
Published 09/28/2024 What direction does synthesis happen?
Published 09/28/2024 How do Reverse transciptase virus work?
Published 09/28/2024 What are satellite viruses?
Published 09/28/2024 What kinda proteins do satallite virsues encode?
Published 09/28/2024 What are satellite nucleic acids?
Published 09/28/2024 What are viroids?
Published 09/28/2024 How do non-eveloped viruses enter?
Published 09/28/2024 How does cell to cell transmission work?
Published 09/28/2024 What are viralogical synapses?
Published 09/28/2024 What are syncytia (sigular syncytium)?
Published 09/28/2024 How do plant virsus spread?
Published 09/28/2024 What is the pasmodesmata and how is it exploited?
Published 09/28/2024 How is endocytosis triggered?
Published 09/28/2024 Talk about virus attachment.
Published 09/28/2024 When a virus is gonna rupture a cell does the ruptuing happing from the inside or the outside?
Published 09/28/2024 What are attachment factors/adhesion receptors?
Published 09/28/2024 What are entry receptors?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 3 host cell receptors interact with surface compoenets of a virion?
Published 09/28/2024 Receptors and virus interactions leads to change in the virus and cells which facilitates entry via a 3 mechinisms what are they?
Published 09/28/2024 What is happening here?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the traits of receptor mediated endocytosis?
Published 09/28/2024 Affinity of individual interactions may be fairly low but attachment can be very tight why is that?
Published 09/28/2024 What is macropinocytosis?
Published 09/28/2024 What does acidification signal when the virus is inside of the endosome?
Published 09/28/2024 What are fusogens?
Published 09/28/2024 What are the 3 maturation steps for fusion proteins?
Published 09/28/2024 What is a fusion peptide?
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