Virology - Virus Nomenclature Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: eclipse : period after a viral infection in which the inoculated particles, disappears. no virus particles can be observed at this time, tropism : term used for specificity of a virus for a particular cell type or tissue, filamentous : marburg virus example is helical but is much longer in length and is described as being this, naked : these viruses tend to be more stable in the environment than enveloped viruses, polythetic : the name of this class of viruses whose members share several properties, but no individual members possess all properties, enveloped : some human and animal viruses have an additional lipid bilayer membrane wrapped around the capsid of the viral particle. called this, spherical : some lipid bilayer membrane wrapped viruses may be icosahedral and are referred to as this, helical : this virus is shaped like a rod or cylinder. it has this shape, genome : this part of the virus consists of dna or rna tha can be single stranded, double, linear or circular, zika : these virus infections are associated with severe birth defects such as microencephaly, icosahedron : a common shape of viral capsids, hepatitis : inflammation of the liver is called this, girus : a very large virus that is not filterable. general viral term, capsomers : most viruses consist of these which form a helical shaped virus particle, spikes : some viruses have these structures protruding out from the envelop, strain : term used for different isolates of the same virus that come from different geographic locations, satellite : hepatitis d virus is this type of rna virus dependent upon hep. b virus for replication of its genome, polymerase : name of enzyme used to synthesize viral mrnas in an infected host cell, protomer : structural proteins that come together to form a large identical subunit called this, proteome : the entire set of proteins expressed by an organism, pleomorphic : term that means that viral particles can vary in size and shape, variant : a virus whose phenotype differs from the original wild type strain is called this, polarity : term used that refers to the positive or negative sense of viral ssrna genomes, complex : some viruses do not comply with the typical helical classification and are referred to as this, reed : this american medical scientist did much research on the yellow fever virus.