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Virus Chase

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

IMPORTANT FEATURES

  • Made of nucleoproteins
  • Cellular non-cytoplasmic
  • Transmission from disease to healthy organism
  • Highly resistant to germicides
  • Viruses can only reproduce in a host
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Where it lives
A virus can live anywhere from soil to air to plant to animal. Viruses are picky about what they infect some only infect plants some only infect animals. Others only infect bacteria

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How it reproduces
A virus needs to find a host cell when they are attached to a host cell, they can control the cell to help the virus reproduce. When the parasite is finished with the host it kills it.

Examples

  • Chicken pox
  • Shingles
  • Measles
  • Rabies
  • Yellow fever
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Hazards
Viruses can infect every living thing. They can be very deadly they can kill you it spreads quickly viruses can have lasting effects

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BENEFITS

  • There is a virus called phage
  • Immunity to a other pathogens
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