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What is the process by which microbes attach to their hosts cells?
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What is the definition of a microbial cell?
A microbial cell is pathogenic bacterium. Microbes are microorganisms and can cause illness in hosts that they feed off of.
What happens during the lysogenic cycle of a viral infection?
The Virus hides in the Hosts Cells DNA
Can protozoa live in host cells?
Yes, in fact there are two hosts that they require to live, but I'm not sure what they are
How does a fluke protect itself from the digestive enzymes of its hosts?
The outer layer of cells around the flukes body is enzyme resistant.
What does the word host cell mean?
it typically means the cell that hosts a disease and spreads it to other cells
How do nematodes attach their hosts?
Nematodes attach to their hosts via toothlike or liplike plates that surrounds their mouth oppening.
Why are organsisms including humans considered hosts for microbes?
Because humans and other organisms become homes for microbes
What are the hosts for the fluke?
Snails, and eventually attach to grass along a waters edge for growth.
What is the definition of a microbial cell?
A microbial cell is pathogenic bacterium. Microbes are microorganisms and can cause illness in hosts that they feed off of.
What is a generalist virus?
It infects many kinds of cells in many different hosts.
Bacteria that invade a host organism and obtain nutrients from hosts cells?
It is Pathogenic
How could growing microbes help a pathogen?
Pathogens are also microbial organisms. They just require a healthy host to transfer them to other healthy hosts thus spreading the disease. If one grows a colony of microbes it attracts the pathogens and helps them to infect them and carry the disease with them.
Why are frequent genetic mutations beneficial for the flu virus?
They allow the virus to circumvent defenses that have been created by hosts to prevent the virus from attaching to and taking over the host cells (a first step in the Lytic Cycle of viral infection and replication). Because the flu viruses can mutate quickly and frequently, many hosts are not able to continue to defend against them with production of new antibodies fast enough to prevent an infection by a mutation of the original infecting virus.The hosts that the flu viruses have infected create antibodies that disable the virus' ability to attach to and enter their cells by perfectly fitting into and blocking the proteins on the outer surface (capsid) of the virus. The proteins are what allow viruses to attach to and enter a host cell and begin the replication process. Genetic mutations in the virus that vary the shapes of these proteins on the capsid of the next generation allow the virus to foil the host's ability to perfectly fit and block the attachment to host cells.See also the related questions below for more information about the Lytic Cycle of viral replication.
What happens during the lysogenic cycle of a viral infection?
The Virus hides in the Hosts Cells DNA
What happens during the lysogenic cycle of the viral infection?
The Virus hides in the Hosts Cells DNA
What happens during lysogenic cycle of a viral infection?
The Virus hides in the Hosts Cells DNA
How do viruses pick hosts?
There is no conscious decision made by a virus in selecting a host. Probability and statistics determine who contracts a virus and who doesn't.
