5th Edition

ISBN: 9781259706615

Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Viruses are infectious microscopic agents that can only reproduce in live cells of animals, plants, or microbes and are smaller than bacteria. Vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, protists, and fungi are among their many hosts. Viruses are unable to multi…

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Chapter 6.1, Problem 1AYP

Describe the significance of viruses being recognized as “filterable.”

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Chapter 6 Solutions

Microbiology: A Systems Approach

Ch. 6.1 - Describe the significance of viruses being...Ch. 6.2 - Summarize arguments on both sides of the debate...Ch. 6.2 - Identify effective terms to describe the behavior...Ch. 6.3 - Prob. 4AYP Ch. 6.3 - Describe the function and structure(s) of viral...Ch. 6.3 - Distinguish between enveloped and naked viruses.Ch. 6.3 - Prob. 7AYP Ch. 6.3 - Compare and contrast the composition of a viral...Ch. 6.3 - Diagram the possible nucleic acid configurations...Ch. 6.4 - Develop two arguments against assigning species...

Ch. 6.4 - Demonstrate how family and genus names in viruses...Ch. 6.5 - Diagram the six-step life cycle of animal viruses.Ch. 6.5 - Define the term cytopathic effect and provide one...Ch. 6.5 - Provide examples of persistent and transforming...Ch. 6.5 - Provide a thorough description of lysogenic and...Ch. 6.6 - List the three principal purposes for cultivating...Ch. 6.6 - Describe three ways in which viruses are...Ch. 6.7 - Prob. 18AYP Ch. 6.8 - Analyze the relative importance of viruses in...Ch. 6.8 - Prob. 20AYP Ch. 6 - A virus is a tiny infectious a. cell. b. living...Ch. 6 - Viruses are known to infect a. plants. b....Ch. 6 - The nucleic acid of a virus is a. DNA only. b. RNA...Ch. 6 - The general steps in a viral multiplication cycle...Ch. 6 - Prob. 5MCQ Ch. 6 - In general, RNA viruses multiply in the cell ____,...Ch. 6 - Viruses cannot be cultivated in/on a. tissue...Ch. 6 - Clear patches in cell cultures that indicate sites...Ch. 6 - Label the parts of this virus. Identify the...Ch. 6 - Circle the viral infections from this list:...Ch. 6 - In lysogeny, viral DNA is inserted into the host...Ch. 6 - A viral capsid is composed of subunits called...Ch. 6 - The envelope of an animal virus is derived from...Ch. 6 - The nucleic acid of animal viruses enters the cell...Ch. 6 - Viruses that persist in the (host) cell and cause...Ch. 6 - Provide evidence in support of or refuting the...Ch. 6 - Summarize the unique properties of viruses and...Ch. 6 - Prob. 3CTQ Ch. 6 - Compare and contrast the processes of latency and...Ch. 6 - Use the Internet to search prion diseases, and...Ch. 6 - From chapter 2, figure 2.23: A virus containing...Ch. 6 - Prob. 1CM

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