Immunology and Infectious Diseases - Content Quiz Questions and Answers (Honors Biology - Unit 7)
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Immunology and Infectious Diseases - Content Quiz Questions and Answers (Honors Biology - Unit 7)
1. 2 components that make up a virus? - correct answer - 1) Nucleic Acid (DNA or R 2) protein
2. True or false? - correct answer - viruses are the same size as prokaryotic and e cells? - correct an...
Immunology and Infectious Diseases - Content Quiz
Questions and Answers (Honors Biology - Unit 7)
1. 2 components that make up a virus? - correct answer - 1) Nucleic Acid
(DNA or R 2) protein
2. True or false? - correct answer - viruses are the same size as
prokaryotic and e cells? - correct answer - False? - correct answer - viruses
are much smaller than either (cannot be seen w electron microscope)
3. 3 general shapes of viruses? - correct answer - rod, sphere, polyhead
4. Are viruses living?? - correct answer - No, they are considered
nonliving which means t placed in a kingdom
5. Obligate Intracellular Parasites? - correct answer - 1) must live inside
cells of other
2) can survive for short amounts of time outside of host but an only f host
6. True or false? - correct answer - Viruses are host specific so they can
target organisms from any kingdom? - correct answer - True? - correct
answer - a virus may target an animal, plant, bacteria, etc.
7. Characteristics of viral infections? - correct answer - 1) Difficult to
manage
2) Sometimes deadly
3) All organisms vulnerable to viruses
4) Infect by transduction
, 8. Transduction? - correct answer - transfer of genetic information from
one organism/vi organism
9. Lytic cycle? - correct answer - 1) virus enters you cell, takes control of
it, and reproduce
2) Breaks open (lyses) cell and symptoms develop quickly rapidly
10. Lysogenic cycle? - correct answer - 1) virus infects cell, incorporates
DNA, and an latent (inactive)
2) Virus reproduces along with host cell but doesn't destroy cell
3) After period of time, virus becomes active and begins lytic cycle
11. Lytic cycle examples? - correct answer - Common cold, Influenza,
Rabies, Measels, Mumps, AIDS mode of HIV
13. How can viruses directly cause some cancers?? - correct answer - Virus
causes host's cell to divide rapidly, forming tumors
14. Virus causing cancers examples? - correct answer - HPV, Hepatitis B
and C, Epstein-Barr Virus
15. What are vaccines?? - correct answer - harmless version of pathogens
which trigger immune system to produce antibodies that fight antigens in
vaccine
16. Anitbodies? - correct answer - A disease fighting protein developed by
the body in respo presence of a foreign substance
17. Antigen? - correct answer - a toxin or other foreign substance that
induces an immune r in the body, production of antibodies.
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