Chapter 18 - Viruses
What is a virus? Made of two parts
Only infect certain things Bacteriophage
Lytic Life Cycle
Viruses that go through lytic cycle Common cold Flu Measles Chicken pox Ebola Smallpox Polio
Lysogenic Life Cycle
Viruses that go through the lysogenic cycle Chicken pox Herpes Hepatitis
HIV / AIDS Retrovirus Infects white blood cells and destroys them Lysogenic life cycle
Origin of Viruses Cells came first Nucleic acids broke from an original host
Are Viruses Living? Not made of cells Can reproduce, but only inside a host Adapt / evolve Do not utilize energy