BIOA01H3 Lecture Notes - Prophage, Plasmodesma, Lysogenic Cycle

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Chapter 21 viruses, viroids, and prions: infectious biological particles. When you receive a vaccine (such as an influenza shot), your body produces antibodies against that virus, protecting you against subsequent infection by any of those specific strains. Antibodies: highly specific protein molecules produced by the immune system that recognize and bind to specific proteins of pathogen, such as the proteins in a virus"s coat. Virus: lack many of the properties of life shared by all organisms and so are not considered to be living organisms. Viruses cannot reproduce on their own and lack a metabolic system to provide energy for their lifecycles. Instead, they depend on the host cells that they infect for these functions. They are infectious biological particles rather than organisms. The structure of a virus is reduced to the minimum necessary to transmit its genome from one host cell to another.

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