Viruses can infect animals, plants and bacteria, and the attachments vary. In animal viruses: Animal cells have a cell membrane. Viruses attach to certain proteins in that membrane. In plant viruses: Plants can also be infected with viruses. Since they have cell walls, viruses attach to those when infecting plants. In bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria): Special viruses called bacteriophages attach to the cell walls of bacteria by way of proteins.
No, viruses cannot infect all cells; they are specific to certain host organisms and cell types. Each virus has a specific set of host cells it can infect, determined by the presence of compatible receptors on the cell surface and the virus's mechanisms for entering the cell. This specificity means that while some viruses can infect a wide range of species, others are restricted to a particular host or cell type.
Yes, viruses hijack the host cell's machinery to replicate themselves, eventually causing the cell to burst and release new viruses. This process, known as lysis, results in the death of the host cell.
New viruses are released after the lytic cycle. ~Gradpoint/Novanet
viruses latch onto a host cell and injects its own DNA into it, this DNA controls the cell and makes it produce more viruses inside the cell, when these are ready the burst out of the host cell killing it, and land on another cell
Viruses have specific proteins on them which only binds to certain receptors, which are present in certain cell's plasma membrane.
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Viruses can infect animals, plants and bacteria, and the attachments vary. In animal viruses: Animal cells have a cell membrane. Viruses attach to certain proteins in that membrane. In plant viruses: Plants can also be infected with viruses. Since they have cell walls, viruses attach to those when infecting plants. In bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria): Special viruses called bacteriophages attach to the cell walls of bacteria by way of proteins.
viruses must bind precisely to proteins on the cell surface and than use a hosts genetic system, this is why most viruses are highly specific to the cells they infect
No, viruses cannot infect all cells; they are specific to certain host organisms and cell types. Each virus has a specific set of host cells it can infect, determined by the presence of compatible receptors on the cell surface and the virus's mechanisms for entering the cell. This specificity means that while some viruses can infect a wide range of species, others are restricted to a particular host or cell type.
viruses behave like dead particles out of the cell and in specific out its particular cell. Once inside its cell, the virus uses the cell's machinery to "come alive" it then begins to reproduce and infect other of the same type of cell.
Yes, viruses use the cell that it has invaded to produce more viruses.
Yes, viruses hijack the host cell's machinery to replicate themselves, eventually causing the cell to burst and release new viruses. This process, known as lysis, results in the death of the host cell.
Viruses dont have a cell membrane. Instead, they have a protein sheath.
No, DNA viruses multiply in the host cell's nucleus, while most RNA viruses multiply in the host cell's cytoplasm