PPT-Viruses

Chapter 18 Are Viruses Alive As a group discuss for 1 minute Be able to defend your answer for the class Are VIRUSES alive Growth and Development Reproduce Change Over Time Obtain and Use Energy. Embryonated. Egg. Viruses do not fall in the category of unicellular . microorganism. They . are obligate intracellular parasites and lack the . machinery . necessary for protein and nucleic acid . synthesis. Other . Acellular. Infectious Agents. 1. 6. Copyright © McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC. Permission required for reproduction or display.. Acellular. Agents. Viruses . – protein and nucleic acid. 1. A program that attaches itself to another . executable. (a . host program. ). Whenever the host program is executed, virus code is ran and it can make a copy of itself and infect other executables found in your memory or hard drive. Prabhaker Mateti. Mateti, Viruses, Trojans and Worms. 2. Virus Awareness. Virus Bulletin . http://www.virusbtn.com/. . Technical journal on developments in the field of computer viruses and anti-virus products . Infectious Agents of Animals . and Plants. Chapter 14. What am I?. Structure and Classification of Animal Viruses. Classification of animal viruses. Taxonomic criteria based on. Genomic structure. DNA or RNA. CLS 212: Medical Microbiology. History. Through the 1800s, many scientists discovered that something smaller than bacteria could cause disease and they called it . virion. (. Latin word- poison. ).. Where the name came from. This is a phrase coined from biology to describe a piece of software that behaves very much like a real virus (only it spreads from computer to computer rather than people!).. STRUCTURE. A core nucleic acid - DNA or RNA. Nucleic Acid surrounded by a protein, called a capsid.. CLASSIFICATION. By genomes: DNA viruses, RNA viruses or retroviruses . (any . of a group of RNA viruses that insert a DNA copy of their genome into the . Embryonated. Egg. Viruses. Viruses do not fall in the category of unicellular . microorganism. They . are obligate intracellular parasites and lack the . machinery . necessary for protein and nucleic acid . . 19, . Ch. 23, and more . Bacteria & Virus Overview. Interesting stuff!. We live with bacteria and viruses constantly, but most people don’t know much about them.. In this chapter we learn both the good and bad of each. EQ: Why are viruses considered to be non-
living?. Characteristics:. *Nonliving particles made of . nucleic acid. and a . protein coat . enlosed in a . capsid. shell... *In order to reproduce, all viruses must have a . VOCABULARY. Virus. Capsid. Envelope. Human . Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV. ). Influenza. Lytic Cycle. Lysogenic Cycle. Lysis. Retrovirus. Prerequisite questions. What are the eight characteristics which all living things have in common. . . The process of transfer of virus into host is referred as . TRANSMISSION. and this is an important step in the life cycle of viruses.. Person to person infections are said to be . HORIZONTAL. . As a group discuss for 1 minute. Be able to defend your answer for the class!. Are . VIRUSES. alive?. Growth and Development. Reproduce. Change Over Time. Obtain and Use Energy. Maintain Homeostasis.