Virus Notes

Today we watched this video to gain insight on viruses.

• first discovered 1901
• are everywhere
• ingest millions every second
• pretty much everything has a virus that targets it including viruses themselves
• viruses are very tiny
• contain rna or dna
• needs host cell to replicate
• turns cells into virus producer
• needs to have matching memrane to virus receptor
• why some viruses target specific types of cels
• usees virus rna and enzymes to take over protien producton of cell
• cell helps make new viruses
• make many new viruses inside until they burst
• posible that a virus was the first nucleus