Connect With Learnsmart Labs Online Access For Prescott's Microbiology

11th Edition

ISBN: 9781260408997

Author: Joanne Willey

Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Higher Education (us)

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Chapter 26.4, Problem 4CC

In what ways are the life cycles of ϕ6 and rotaviruses similar? How do they differ?

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Connect With Learnsmart Labs Online Access For Prescott's Microbiology

Ch. 26.1 - List some characteristics used in classifying...Ch. 26.1 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 26.2 - Prob. 1MI Ch. 26.2 - Why do you think T4 evolved to initiate DNA...Ch. 26.2 - What function does HMC glycosylation serve?Ch. 26.2 - Explain why the T4 genome is circularly permuted.Ch. 26.2 - Prob. 1.2CC Ch. 26.2 - How is a prophage induced to become active again?Ch. 26.2 - Describe the roles of cII, CIII, repressor (CI),...Ch. 26.2 - How do the temperate phages Mu and P1 differ from...

Ch. 26.2 - How is the envelope of this virus formed? How does...Ch. 26.2 - Why do cold sores recur throughout the lifetime of...Ch. 26.2 - In what part of the host cell does a herpesvirus...Ch. 26.2 - Many small DNA viruses rely on host enzymes for...Ch. 26.3 - Why is the X174 genome considered plus stranded?Ch. 26.3 - Why is it necessary for some ssDNA viruses to...Ch. 26.3 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 26.3 - How do parvoviruses trick the host DNA polymerase...Ch. 26.4 - The rotavirus genome encodes 12 proteins. Suggest...Ch. 26.4 - Describe the life cycle of 6 phage. What makes...Ch. 26.4 - Prob. 3CC Ch. 26.4 - In what ways are the life cycles of 6 and...Ch. 26.5 - Where in the host does the plus-strand RNA genome...Ch. 26.5 - How do some plus-strand viruses use polyproteins...Ch. 26.5 - What is an IRES? Why is it important?Ch. 26.5 - Prob. 3CC Ch. 26.6 - How does that use of a segmented genome by...Ch. 26.6 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 26.7 - Prob. 1MI Ch. 26.7 - Prob. 1CC Ch. 26.7 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 26.7 - Prob. 3CC Ch. 26.8 - Prob. 1CC Ch. 26.8 - Trace the HBV multiplication cycle, paying...Ch. 26 - Prob. 1RC Ch. 26 - Prob. 2RC Ch. 26 - Prob. 3RC Ch. 26 - Prob. 4RC Ch. 26 - No temperate RNA phages have yet been discovered....Ch. 26 - The choice between lysogeny and lysis is...Ch. 26 - Prob. 3AL Ch. 26 - You are studying RNA viruses and have discovered a...Ch. 26 - Prob. 5AL Ch. 26 - Prob. 6AL

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