DNA viruses - Answer -hepatitis, chicken pox, herpes
RNA viruses - Answer -common cold, measles, mumps, polio, and AIDS
Virus dormancy - Answer -
virus severity - Answer -how much a virus affects a person depends on the immune
system response and what tissue is affected
vaccines - Answer -exposure to weak/inactive form of virus
influenza - Answer -RNA virus with high mutations
RNA v.s. DNA - Answer -RNA= single strand, one type of sugar, and has U. DNA=
double strand, different type of sugar, and has T.
Types of RNA - Answer -mRNA, tRNA, rRNA
mRNA - Answer -messenger
rRNA - Answer -ribosomal
tRNA - Answer -transfer
Transcription Steps - Answer -initiation, RNA elongation, termination, processing of
RNA (in Eukaryotes)
RNA polymerase - Answer -enzyme that links RNA nucleotides
promoter - Answer -starter site
terminator - Answer -ending site
RNA processing to mRNA - Answer -transcript goes to mRNA, adds cap and tail
nucleotides, RNA splicing occurs, joins exon regions
Introns - Answer -DNA that code for nothing
Exons - Answer -DNA that does code for something
reverse transcriptase - Answer -found in retro viruses like HIV that causes AIDS
retrovirus - Answer -
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