Viruses
Viruses, microscopic infectious agents, occupy a unique and often perplexing realm in the biological world. Operating at the edge of life, they lack the ability to replicate outside a host cell yet possess the capacity to cause a range of diseases, from the common cold to severe pandemics. Their structure is elegantly simple yet remarkably effective in infiltrating and hijacking cellular machinery. Understanding viruses is pivotal not only for combating infectious diseases but also for unraveling fundamental aspects of biology and advancing medical science. Thus, exploring the intricacies of viruses unveils a fascinating interplay between pathogens and their hosts.
Questions
- What domain are viruses classified under?
- How are prions related to proteins?
- What is the role of viruses in cancer?
- What do viruses actually do to the human body?
- What is a painful disease caused by a virus that affects the nervous system called?
- Why is it ineffective to treat viral disease with antibiotics?
- What viruses cause mononucleosis?
- Why is a virus hard to kill?
- How does a virus harm a cell?
- What are some examples of plant viroids?
- Is hepatitis a type of infective condition?
- What type of medications are used to treat viruses?
- What type of pathogen is malaria?
- How are viruses good and bad?
- How can prions be killed?
- Are viruses irritable, as in "capable of responding to a stimuli"?
- How can viruses have ssDNA ?How would the replication of ssDNA inside a host cell work ?
- What makes up a viral capsid?
- Why are viruses called obligate intracellular parasites?
- Why don't antibiotics work on viruses?