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The enzyme used to repel an invading virus in the human body is interferon. Interferons are proteins released by cells in response to viral infections, and they help to activate the immune system and inhibit viral replication.

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Which enzyme are retroviruses equiped with that allows them to transcribe DNA from an RNA template?

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus. A retrovirus is a RNA virus that replicates through a DNA intermediate. HIV synthesises DNA from RNA by the action of reverse transcriptase enzyme.


What happens when RNA is extracted from a virus is injected into a host cell?

Without the viral enzyme reverse transcriptase probable nothing. RNA viruses are retroviruses because they nee reverse tanscriptase to make a DNA copy from the RNA that is inserted into the cell. Generally to form a provirus. Now if you injected DNA from a regular virus then it would be as if the virus did it itself.


Is HIV a viral or bacterial?

It is a Virus, infact the V in HIV stands for Virus


Why restriction enzyme cannot cut its own DNA?

Restriction enzymes are produced by bacteria to help destroy foreign, invading DNA, such as the DNA of bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacterial cells). Every restriction enzyme comes with a methylase enzyme, or more specifically, a DNA methyltransferase. The methylase enzyme methylates (adds a methyl group) to the restriction endonuclease site on the cell's own DNA, which protects the sites from the restriction enzyme so that it does not degrade its own DNA.


What is most common threat to a host organism posed by an invading virus?

The most common threat posed by an invading virus to a host organism is the potential for the virus to hijack the host's cellular machinery to replicate itself, leading to the destruction of host cells and tissues. This can result in various symptoms of infection and overactivation of the host's immune response, which can cause further damage to the host organism.

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What is the most common threat to the human body from an invading virus?

Swine Flu or scientifically pronounced (H1N1)


An invading foreign material such as that on a virus is an?

antigen


Drugs which fight HIV by deactivating an enzyme which the virus needs to be able to in fect human blood cells?

Protease inhibitors.


What is the neurominidase of a virus?

This is an enzyme that helps the virus to break out of the cell and so they can attack other cells and spread. Since this is an enzyme, a drug that is an enzyme inhibitor can be made to block it. The mumps and influenza viruses have this enzyme. Two such drugs that block this enzyme are oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza). These two are used for the influenza virus.


Which enzyme are retroviruses equiped with that allows them to transcribe DNA from an RNA template?

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus. A retrovirus is a RNA virus that replicates through a DNA intermediate. HIV synthesises DNA from RNA by the action of reverse transcriptase enzyme.


What type of pathogen is HIV?

HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is itself a pathogen.HIV is a virus.HIV itself is a pathogen Human Immunodeficiency virus cause HIV/AIDS disease it belongs to retro virus which has ability to convert mRNA to DNA the reverse transcription and possess reverse transcriptase enzyme


What HIV enzyme is essential for its successful replication in a host cell?

Reverse transcriptase is the enzyme that permits the HIV virus to enter the cell. There are other human diseases that are also caused by other viruses using a reverse transcriptase.


The virus that causes AIDS is damaging to the body because it?

targets cells that fight invading microbes


What is the full meaning of H I V?

Human Immunodeficiency Virus


What cells response to an invading virus that the body has already been vaccinated against?

Antibodies


Is HIV a virus or bacteria?

HIV is a virus,as its full form is human immuno virus.


How does enzyme restriction limit the affect of a virus?

Enzyme restriction acts as a defense mechanism by cutting viral DNA at specific recognition sites, preventing the virus from replicating effectively in the host cell. This limits the virus's ability to spread and cause infection.