Assignment:
Please include the questions along with your answers.
1. Define the term virus. List and describe the three main types of viral structures.
2. Why must a virus enter a living cell in order to reproduce?
3. What is a bacteriophage? What are the parts of a bacteriophage?
4. Distinguish between a lytic cycle and a lysogenic cycle.
5. Describe what happens in the following stages of bacteriophage infection: attachment and penetration, virion assembly, and release of virions.
6. How does Covid-19 spread? What are its symptoms?
7. What is the name for the virus that causes Covid-19? How does the virus attach to a cell? What kinds of cells can it attach to?
8. Describe two ways that the virus can enter a cell.
9. Explain how the virus replicates within the cell.
10. How are mutations of the genetic material of the virus caught and corrected by the virus?