MICB 212 - HIV (Chapter 10-12) Practice Questions and Answers
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MICB 212 - HIV (Chapter 10-12) Practice
Questions and Answers
What subgroup of retroviruses are HIV classified under? - ANSWERLentiviruses - which have a long
interval between initial infection and serious onset clinical symptoms
HIV-1 - ANSWER- Evolved from SIV transmitted to humans from chimp...
Define Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) - ANSWER✔✔- Disease that is no hereditary but
develop after from contact with HIV
- Causes weakening of immune system
- Final stage of HIV infection
What is required for the diagnoses of AIDS? - ANSWER✔✔- Patient has one or more opportunistic
infections (infection that takes advantage of damaged immune cells)
- CD4 T Cell count is less than 200 per micro litre of blood
HIV general structure - ANSWER✔✔- Enveloped virus
- Genome is packaged in the cored of the viral particle
- Two complete (+) RNA strands
- Each strand has a 5' cap and 3' PolyA Tail
Organization of HIV genome - ANSWER✔✔- Repeat sequence + primer binding site (PBS)
- gag
- pol
- regulatory genes
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