VIRUSES

• WHAT ARE THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF A VIRUS?

  acellular and non-living
• HOW DO VIRUSES REPLICATE?

  inside cells, making them difficult to destroy without harming the host cells
• WHAT ARE THE KEY FEATURES OF A VIRUS CELL?

  • attachment proteins
  • lipid envelope
  • matrix
  • capsule
  • RNA
  • reverse transcriptase
• WHAT DO ATTACHMENT PROTEINS DO?

  bind to host cells
• WHAT DOES REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE DO?

  convert RNA to DNA