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What species does a retrovirus infect?
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus so humans are one species. They also infect mammals and other vertebrates such as birds and some forms infect fungi and insects. There is also one that infects yeasts.
Is HIV bacterial?
No HIV is not bacteria or any other organism. HIV is a retrovirus. It infects the T helper cells of human, cause AIDS disease.No, it is a virus.No, it is not a virus.
Are viruses general or specific to the cells that they infect?
viruses are specific to the cells they infect called host cells
Is measles a retrovirus?
No. Though measles contains an RNA genome like retroviruses, it does not have the distinctive enzyme reverse transcriptase, and therefore does not change its genome to DNA before transcription.
What do the spores do after they burst from red blood cells?
After bursting from red blood cells, spores released by Plasmodium (malaria parasite) enter other red blood cells to continue the infection cycle. They invade new cells, replicate, and eventually burst out to infect more cells, causing the cycle of infection to continue.
What did the first viruses do?
Infect cells.
How do bacteria differ from the cells of the organism they infect?
Bacteria are unicellular. The cells of the organism they infect are, quite often, part of a multicellular organism.
A virus that stores its genetic information as RNA is called?
It is called a Retrovirus HIV is an example of a Retrovirus
Why do man mostly get color blindness?
You will never find a woman who is colorblind, they can only carry the gene. You see a woman has two sex cells (XX) and neither of these cells are infect-able they can only carry the disorder. A male on the other hand has sex cells XY and our Y cells are infect-able by the disorder.
The human immunodeficiency virus may infect what cells?
sperm cells
Why cant every virus infect every living cell?
Viruses can only infect specific cells that have the necessary receptors on their surface for the virus to attach to. Each virus is adapted to infect specific types of cells based on these interactions. This specificity limits the range of cells that a virus can successfully infect.
Why can bacteria infect your cells but you cant infect the bacteria?
Part of the reason is the difference in size. Another is that we consume bacteria but not actually infect them. It is a matter of terminology.
