Brock Biology of Microorgan. -Access
Brock Biology of Microorgan. -Access
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780321943736
Author: MADIGAN
Publisher: PEARSON
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Viruses are infectious microscopic agents that can only reproduce in live cells of animals, plants, or microbes and are smaller than bacteria. Vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, protists, and fungi are among their many hosts. Viruses are unable to multi…
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Ch. 8.1 - How does a virus differ from a cell?Ch. 8.1 - Why does a virus need a host cell?Ch. 8.1 - Compared with cells, what is unusual about viral...Ch. 8.2 - Distinguish between a capsid and a capsomere. What...Ch. 8.2 - What is the difference between a naked virus and...Ch. 8.2 - What kinds of enzymes can be found within the...Ch. 8.3 - What is packaged into capsids during maturation?Ch. 8.3 - Explain the term burst size.Ch. 8.3 - Prob. 3MQCh. 8.4 - What is meant by a viral titer?
Ch. 8.4 - What is a plaque-forming unit?Ch. 8.4 - What is meant by the term plating efficiency?Ch. 8.5 - How does attachment contribute to virushost...Ch. 8.5 - Prob. 2MQCh. 8.5 - What part of phage T4 enters the host cytoplasm? Ch. 8.6 - Prob. 1MQCh. 8.6 - Prob. 2MQCh. 8.6 - Prob. 3MQCh. 8.7 - Give one example each of T4 early, middle, and...Ch. 8.7 - Prob. 2MQCh. 8.7 - What is required to package the T4 genome into its...Ch. 8.8 - What is a lysogen and what is a prophage?Ch. 8.8 - How does DNA replication in lambda differ from...Ch. 8.8 - What commits lambda to the lytic versus the...Ch. 8.9 - Prob. 1MQCh. 8.9 - Prob. 2MQCh. 8.9 - Prob. 3MQCh. 8.10 - Prob. 1MQCh. 8.10 - Prob. 2MQCh. 8.10 - Prob. 3MQCh. 8.11 - What type of bacteriophages are most common in the...Ch. 8.11 - Prob. 2MQCh. 8.11 - Prob. 3MQCh. 8 - Prob. 1RQCh. 8 - Prob. 2RQCh. 8 - Prob. 3RQCh. 8 - Why does a one-step growth curve differ in shape...Ch. 8 - Describe the events that occur on an agar plate...Ch. 8 - Prob. 6RQCh. 8 - What is required for a bacteriophage T4 virion to...Ch. 8 - Prob. 8RQCh. 8 - Prob. 9RQCh. 8 - Bacteriophage T4 lacks its own RNA polymerase. How...Ch. 8 - Prob. 11RQCh. 8 - Prob. 12RQCh. 8 - Prob. 13RQCh. 8 - Prob. 14RQCh. 8 - Why can it be said that the retrovirus genome is...Ch. 8 - Prob. 16RQCh. 8 - Prob. 17RQCh. 8 - What causes the viral plaques that appear on a...Ch. 8 - The promoters on genes encoding early proteins in...Ch. 8 - Under some conditions, it is possible to obtain...Ch. 8 - Prob. 4AQ
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