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Yes. Viruses contain enzymes that allows it to reproduce in the host cell. For instance, retrovirus HIV has reverse transcriptase which is unique to HIV and is used to form double stranded DNA from RNA template.
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∙ 14y agoNo virus did not have any catabolic enzymes. The are totaly dependent for this on their host cell. They use all the enzymes present only in host cells.
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∙ 13y agoSome, like the HIV, contains a special enzyme such as reverse transcriptase.
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∙ 12y agoyes, because it is a living organism in our bodies and medicine is like poison to it so it dies and comes back in a few weeks or months.
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∙ 13y agoYes they do.
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What is phagocytize bacteria?
In the process of phagocytosis, phagocytes surround and engulf pathogens (such as bacteria) and use lysosomal enzymes to destroy the germs.
Catabolic reaction that cells use to get energy from nutrients?
Energy metabolism is a reaction that allows cells to get energy from nutrients. A catabolic pathway is a series of chemical reactions that break down the molecules to produce energy.
What do enzymes do for the body?
Enzymes are globular proteins that function as biological catalysts in the body. They help to activate and speed up anabolic and catabolic reactions. For example, enzymes help to break down/digest the food you eat.
What two biomolecules can carry the genetic information for a virus?
DNA and RNA. Viruses that use RNA often have to have enzymes that convert the RNA to DNA.
Why do biologists consider viruses to be nonliving?
Viruses are not cells and do not have a cell membrane or other components of living cells. They cannot reproduce on their own. They cannot move on their own. They also can not use energy. They are alive in the sense that they are organic material, but not in the sense that they are independent living things.Also they cannot respond to stimulus.Most biologists today consider viruses to be nonliving because viruses do not have all the characteristics essential for life. Viruses are not cells and do not use their own energy to grow or to respond to their surroundings. Viruses also cannot make food, take in food, or produce wastes. The only way in which viruses are like organisms is that they are able to multiply.CREDITS FROM: NORTH CAROLINA 8TH GRADE PRENTICE HALL SCIENCE EXPLORER
Why are viruses difficult to target therapeutically?
Viruses use their host's metabolic enzymes and some viruses mutate very quickly so they can easily become resistant to drugs. Viruses are almost biologically inert until they infect a cell.
What does a virus do to its host cell?
virus want to the enzymes of their host cell for grow and reproduction so it take many enzymes which want o the host cell.
Why does a virus not have both DNA and RNA?
Because it doesn't use it's DNA or RNA to function, it uses it to inject into a cell and switch the cell's instructions to its own so the cell will make more viruses. Cells have DNA and RNA to tell the cell what to do, but viruses just do it naturally. Viruses have no use for both.
Name two features that distinguish viruses from bacteria?
All bacteria use their own ribosomes for protein synthesis while all viruses have to use their hosts' ribosomes. All bacteria have their own energy generation mechanisms (cellular respiration or photosynthesis) while all viruses have no intrinsic energy generation mechanisms.
Why can not antibotics can not be use to treat viruse or prions?
Most drugs which target bacteria work by targeting specific enzymes which they inhibit and thus prevent vital protein formation by the bacteria. Viruses do no have these enzymes so they are unaffected. Source - BSc(Hons)
How do you make your own DNA to make a new breed?
You cant make your own DNA, you use certain enzymes to get the part of the DNA that you want to use in genetic engineering.
Who was Edward Howell?
He advocated the consumption of large amounts of plant enzymes, theorizing that if the body had to use less of its own enzymes for digestion, it could store them for maintaining metabolic harmony.
What is phagocytize bacteria?
In the process of phagocytosis, phagocytes surround and engulf pathogens (such as bacteria) and use lysosomal enzymes to destroy the germs.
Catabolic reaction that cells use to get energy from nutrients?
Energy metabolism is a reaction that allows cells to get energy from nutrients. A catabolic pathway is a series of chemical reactions that break down the molecules to produce energy.
Do medical viruses use energy?
yes medical viruses does use energy
If there is no restriction enzyme in eukaryotes how the proliferation of virus is restricted in eukaryotes?
They use a different mechanism: RNAi short of RNA interference, cleaves the virus genome (usually double stranded RNA) and destroys any strand that is complementary to the viral genome. -eukaryotic viruses are usually RNA viruses so they eukaryotes don't really restriction enzymes to protect against viruses.
How did Dr. Edward Howell pioneer enzyme therapy?
He advocated the consumption of large amounts of plant enzymes, theorizing that if the body had to use less of its own enzymes for digestion, it could store them for maintaining metabolic harmony
