Homework answers / question archive / QUESTION 1 Describe all of the ways viruses can be classified and distinguished from each other

QUESTION 1 Describe all of the ways viruses can be classified and distinguished from each other

Biology

Share With

---

QUESTION 1

Describe all of the ways viruses can be classified and distinguished from each other. (How do we categorize them?)

 

QUESTION 2

 

Describe the lytic and lysogenic cycles. What happens in each of the two cycles?

 

QUESTION 3

 

Explain the difference between antigenic shift and antigenic drift.

 

QUESTION 4

 

What are the 3 ways bacteria can acquire new fragments of DNA? In addition to these methods how can bacteria develop novel genes through multiple generations?

 

QUESTION 5

 

Describe the exoenzymes created by Staphylococci and how they make the bacteria more pathogenic.

 

QUESTION 6

 

What are two adaptations which Neisseria gonorrhea use to be more pathogenic?

 

QUESTION 7

 

Describe the four species of Clostridium discussed in class and what makes each of them unique. What toxins do they create and how do those toxins effect our physiology?

 

QUESTION 8

 

How does Listeria monocytogenes avoid the humoral immune system? Describe the species as well.

 

QUESTION 9

 

Why does Borrelia hermsii cause relapsing fevers? How is this bacteria spread to humans?

 

QUESTION 10

 

Describe Orthomyxoviruses. Why do they mutate so fast? Describe their genomes, and various pathologies they can cause.

 

QUESTION 11

 

What are the stages of Lyssavirus? How is the disease spread and what is the prognosis of disease if left untreated?

 

QUESTION 12

 

Describe how HIV breaks down the adaptive immune system. How is the disease spread? What are the symptoms?

 

QUESTION 13

 

What is an oncogenic virus? Give several examples.

 

QUESTION 14

 

Describe the signs and symptoms of pox viruses. Describe the different pox viruses known to infect humans. Which one is deadly to humans?

 

QUESTION 15

 

How is West Nile Virus transmitted? What are the symptoms? What is the treatment?