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Are there any viruses that are useful to humans?
Yes, there are viruses that can be beneficial to humans. For example, certain viruses are being used in gene therapy to treat genetic disorders, such as inherited blindness. Additionally, bacteriophages are viruses that specifically infect and kill harmful bacteria, and are being explored as an alternative to antibiotics for treating bacterial infections.
Can a virus infect a bacteria?
Yes, they are known as bacteriophages, or simply phages.For example, Enterobacteria phage T4 is a phage which infects the E-Coli bacterium.Your question should be "Can a virus infect a bacterium?" Yes they can. Viruses are 10 to 100 times smaller than bacteria or in other words, they are submicroscopic parasites. They are the smallest living things known to man.
What are rod viruses?
The Rudivirus(members of the family Rudiviridae) are unenveloped, stiff-rod-shaped viruses with linear dsDNA genomes, that infect hyperthermophilic archaea of the kingdom Crenarchaeota.[1][2] The study of crenarchaeal viruses is still incipient. Our knowledge of their biology and basic molecular processes, including infection, virus-host interactions, DNA replication and packaging, as well as transcription regulation, is somewhat limited.
What are the harmful effects of human viruses?
Viruses are parasitic, they can infect plants, animals, and bacteria, and the can cause serious or not too serious diseases.They also infect specific tissue in the human body and cause disturbances in this organ such as flu virus
How do viruses obtain carbohydrates?
Viruses do not have the machinery to produce their own carbohydrates. Instead, they rely on the host cells they infect to supply the necessary carbohydrates for their replication and survival. Viruses can hijack the host cell's metabolic pathways to obtain carbohydrates for their own use.
Do viruses infect other species beside humans?
Yes, they do.
How can viruses be helpful?
Viruses that are harmless to humans can be used to infect bacteria or other pests eg rabbits
True or false Emerging viruses normally do not infect humans but they can when humans disturb their habitat?
Yes that is correct.
What do viruses that cause physical diseases infect?
It depends on what kind of virus. Viruses can infect any cell in the human body. Viruses such as HIV infect the immune system; air-born viruses, such as H1N1 or a cold, infect the respiratory system; neurological viruses, like rabies infect the brain (the virus is usually carried to it by peripheral nerves); and viruses like polio effect the nervous system, which can create paralysis.
Dog Virus infectous to humans?
There are quite a few different dog viruses that are infectious to human beings. Other dog viruses die before they can infect humans.
Is the phage virus harmful to humans?
NO because it's tail fibers will allow it to land only on certain a kind of bacteria and not on human cells.
Are all viruses dangerous?
Not all but some do. If a person has a contagious virus then stay away from them. Some travel only buying eating raw meat or poisoned food or dirty water. Another science question d by the wizzo!
What does Caulimoviridae infect?
Caulimoviridea are retro viruses that infect plants.
Is there any specific name for a helpful virus?
No. Any and all viruses are parasitic. There may not be any helpful viruses, but there are certainly a large quantity of harmless viruses, which doesn't infect humans, but rather specific animals or plants.
What did the first viruses do?
Infect cells.
Are computer viruses alive and why or why not?
Computer viruses aren't living things. These are pieces of mal-ware created by humans to infect computers with infectiousness software. They cannot harm you in any way, but can destroy a computer.
Why can't dogs and humans get the same viruses?
Dogs and humans have different immune systems and cellular receptors, so viruses that can infect one species may not be able to infect the other. Additionally, genetic differences between species can affect virus transmission and replication within host cells.
