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Why cant every virus infect every living cell?
Viruses are target specific
What is the part of the cell that viruses invade?
Viruses can infect animals, plants and bacteria, and the attachments vary. In animal viruses: Animal cells have a cell membrane. Viruses attach to certain proteins in that membrane. In plant viruses: Plants can also be infected with viruses. Since they have cell walls, viruses attach to those when infecting plants. In bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria): Special viruses called bacteriophages attach to the cell walls of bacteria by way of proteins.
Viruses make the host cell produce new viruses which kills th host cell?
Active Viruses
What cells are infected by the human immunodeficiency virus considering that most viruses infect a specific kind of cell?
T-cells.
How are viruses spread cell to cell?
New viruses are released after the lytic cycle. ~Gradpoint/Novanet
Why are viruses so specific in the cell the infect?
Viruses have specific proteins on them which only binds to certain receptors, which are present in certain cell's plasma membrane.
Are viruses general or highly specific to the cell they infect?
Highly specific
What structures do viruses have that allow them to identify a specific type of cell and attach to it?
good
What structure do viruses have that allow them to identify a specific type of cell and attach to it?
good
Why are most viruses highly specific to cells they infects?
viruses must bind precisely to proteins on the cell surface and than use a hosts genetic system, this is why most viruses are highly specific to the cells they infect
Why cant every virus infect every living cell?
Viruses are target specific
What is the part of the cell that viruses invade?
Viruses can infect animals, plants and bacteria, and the attachments vary. In animal viruses: Animal cells have a cell membrane. Viruses attach to certain proteins in that membrane. In plant viruses: Plants can also be infected with viruses. Since they have cell walls, viruses attach to those when infecting plants. In bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria): Special viruses called bacteriophages attach to the cell walls of bacteria by way of proteins.
Are viruses devoid of any biochemical machinery and thus behave like dead particles inside the cell?
viruses behave like dead particles out of the cell and in specific out its particular cell. Once inside its cell, the virus uses the cell's machinery to "come alive" it then begins to reproduce and infect other of the same type of cell.
Viruses make the host cell produce new viruses which kills th host cell?
Active Viruses
What cells are infected by the human immunodeficiency virus considering that most viruses infect a specific kind of cell?
T-cells.
What group does virus belong to?
Be more specific? Viruses can be considered pathogens, but they are not considered living because they do not obey the cell theory.
Does virus makes the cell it is in produce more viruses?
Yes, viruses use the cell that it has invaded to produce more viruses.
