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Phages & Other Viruses Repro- duction HIV & AIDS Diseases & Vaccines Scientists Prions & Viroids
This is the cell infected by phage virus. A 100
What is a bacteria cell? A 100
The type of nucleic acid in a phage. A 200
What is DNA? A 200
It is a compound used by a phage to breakdown a cell wall. A 300
What is an enzyme? A 300
The portion of a phage that compresses as the virus injects its genes into the host cell. A 400
What is the sheath? A 400
A new virus particle that leaves a host cell. A 500
What is a virion?
An organism makes copies of itself through a process known by this term. B 100
What is a reproduction? B 100
A virus must reproduce in a host cell, which they damage. Therefore viruses go by this three-word term. B 200
What is obligate intracellular parasite? B 200
The name of the virus reproduction process in which new virus particles are produced immediately. B 300
What is the lytic cycle? B 300
Phage genes that are incorporated into the host cell during the lysogenic cycle. B 400
What is a prophage (provirus)? B 400
A phage that enters the lysogenic cycle is referred to as this. B 500
What is a temperate phage? B 500
The letters HIV represent these words. C 100
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus? C 100
These actually make a person sick who has AIDS. C 200
What are opportunistic infections? C 200
HIV has this nucleic acid. C 300
What is RNA? C 300
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This HIV enzyme allows the production of DNA from RNA. C 400
What is reverse transcriptase? C 400
HIV infects these white blood cells. C 500
What are macrophages and Helper (CD 4) T cells lymphocytes? C 500
A disease-causing organism, such as bacteria, virus or yeast, are all known by this name. D 100
What is a pathogen? D 100
The term virus means this in Latin. D 200
What is poison? D 200
This is given (usually an injection) to prepare the immune system to combat an infection. D 300
What is a vaccine? D 300
An altered form of a pathogen given in a vaccine. D 400
What is attenuated? D 400
In 1918 a deadly outbreak of this retrovirus-caused illness was responsible for many deaths worldwide. D 500
What is Influenza? D 500
The scientist produced the world’s first vaccine. E 100
Who was Dr. Edward Jenner? E 100
Jenner’s smallpox vaccine involved inoculating a patient with fluid containing this virus. E 200
What is cowpox? E 200
Pasteur produced a vaccine to this deadly virus. E 300
What is rabies? E 300
Wendell Stanley is known to have been to first to do this to tobacco mosaic virus. (It helps to demonstrate that the virus is not living.) E 400
What is crystallize it? E 400
This scientist developed the first polio vaccine in E 500
Who was Dr. Jonas Salk? E 500
This is a pathogen that consists of a short strand of RNA. F 100
What is a viroid? F 100
Viroids infect these organisms. F 200
What are plants? F 200
Proteins on the brain’s surface that may (although rarely) become abnormal. F 300
What are prions? F 300
This is the prion disease that was contracted by New Guinea cannibals F 400
What is Kuru? F 400
This prion disease, human spongiform encephalopathy, also goes by this name. F 500
What is Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) ? F 500
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