Questions -
1. Describe the essential cell "machinery" that viruses use to make a new virus.
2. Why do viruses need the machinery to make more viruses? Why can't they replicate on their own?
3. What are the structures that need to be put together during viral assembly? Consider the key structural components of viruses described earlier.
4. How does the army of new viruses get out of the cell to infect the nearby cells?
5. Formulate a hypothesis as to what would happen to viral replication and budding from the cell if the ribosomes did not make VP40. List several types of host cells and the associated virus that binds to the host cell.
6. What are three major ways in which a virus enters a host cell to deliver its genome?
7. Formulate a hypothesis as to why there is more than one mechanism of viral entry into host cells.