BSC 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Veterinary Virology, Retrovirus, Aids

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BSC 108
• Professor: Christine J.Yates

Document Summary

May lead ot cancer, depends on something: mutations, can be good, bad, results in no change, depending on, the type of change, where the change in dna occurs, how it affects the organism and its survival. Imagine a specially designed spaceship with resistant shell: the engineers forgot to build a fuel tank, upon landing, cargo takes control of all the planets factories and instructs. Infection by hiv can cause aids: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, end stages of life, hiv: human immunogen virus, this disease is what causes aids. In 2005, almost 5 million people worldwide were newly infected with hiv: hiv is a retrovirus, a retro virus is an rna virus, that reproduces by means of a dna molecule. It copes its rna to ddna using reverse transcriptase: emerging viruses, any new viruses have emerged in recent years, how do new viruses arise, mutation of existing viruses, spread to new host species.