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A virus will replicate within a host cell.
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What do you call a cell that has been infected with a virus?
It is called a host cell. The virus attaches to the cell and injects its DNA into the cell. The virus's DNA overruns the "instructions" that the cell has and "tells" the cell to make copies of the virus using the DNA. Then the cell makes so many copies of the virus, that it explodes. The new viruses then go on to attach to other cells.
What is a virus called outside a host cell?
virus can't live outside host cell
The cell or organism which a virus depends is called?
This is the host (organism) and the cell is called the host cell.
Why is the cell a virus lives in called a host?
A virus is not alive so it is unable to reproduce on its own. It must have a living cell to "hijack" and "live in" so it can take over the cell and turn it into a virus making factory. The cell provides the "raw materials" and the energy to make the replicants. In biology, a host is the animal or plant on which or in which another organism lives. The animal or plant that gets hijacked in this way by a virus is, therefore, called the host. That term is also used to describe those who receive guests in their home or hotel, etc. The biological use of the word host may have some relationship to that particular meaning of the word.
Why is the cell invaded by the virus called a host cell?
A cell invaded by a virus is known as the 'host cell', as it 'hosted' the virus with shelter and food.
What is a single cell virus particle called?
A virion.
What are Viruses that immediately take over a cell's functions called?
A virus the immediately takes over a cell's functions is an active virus. An active virus causes the host cell to make new viruses, destroying the host cell.
Type of infection in which a host cell makes copies of the virus indefintely?
The Lysogenic Cycle. The virus' DNA will integrate itself into the host cell's own DNA, such that the cell will continue to make copies of the virus for as long as it survives (and if it passes down its DNA to daughter cells).
Microscopic particle that invades a cell and destroys it?
It is called a virus.
What do you call that a virus invades?
A virus which invades a cell can be said to be virulent. One that causes the host cell to immediately produce virus' particles and lose it's ability to live is said to be a lytic virus. A virus that remains "silent" for awhile is called a lysogenic virus.
How can a virus conduct genetic engineering?
A virus can conduct genetic engineering by using it to insert a gene into a cell. The virus containing the gene is called a vector. By changing the cell, you can introduce to other cells.
What is A pathogen that is inactive unless it is inside of a living cell called?
A virus
