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A reason behind the fact that most viruses are limited to attacking only a few types of cells. This might be important information for a medical researcher.
Introduction:
Viruses or intracellular parasites attach themselves to a living cell, moves inside and starts forming its proteins. After this they copy their genome inside and moves out of the cell to infect other cells.
Explanation of Solution
Viruses tend to infect certain host cell only, which are known as permissive cells. Viral receptor on the host cell gives the surface to the virus to attach. The
This information is important for a medical researcher as they work on medicines that help the patient to recover from the disease caused by the particular virus attack. As each virus attack certain host cell like each key fits into a specific lock only. Simple cells like prokaryotic bacteria are also attacked by specific types of viruses.
Viruses tend to infect certain host cell only, which are known as permissive cells.
This information is important for a medical researcher as they work on medicines that help the patient to recover from the disease caused by the particular virus attack.
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