Viruses Flashcards
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| 3615236940 | virus | a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms |  | 0 |
| 3615238854 | lytic cycle | results in the destruction of the infected cell and its membrane and replication occurs separately |  | 1 |
| 3615240429 | capside | outer protein coat of a virus |  | 2 |
| 3615240430 | envelope | the inner cell membrane and the cell wall of a bacterium |  | 3 |
| 3615242154 | lysogenic cycle | Integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome |  | 4 |
| 3615249638 | vaccine | a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease |  | 5 |
| 3615365222 | bacteria | a prokaryotic microorganism that are typically a few micrometers in length and have various shapes |  | 6 |
| 3615380051 | microorganism | a microscopic living organism which may be single celled or multicellular |  | 7 |
| 3615386462 | protist | large diverse group of eukaryotes, mainly unicellular, that don't form tissues |  | 8 |
| 3615406519 | antibiotic resistence | when an infectious organism is not killed by a drug designed to eliminate it |  | 9 |