Biology › Section K · Viruses and prokaryotes › Topic K.2
Virus infection and hosts
A virus outside a cell can do nothing - no metabolism, no growth, no division. Inside a host cell it attaches, gets in, commandeers the machinery, assembles copies and gets out - by paths that differ in bacteria, animals and plants.
In this topic
- The six-step takeover
- Attachment and entry
- Copying the instructions
- Lytic or lysogenic
- Exit strategies
- Animal infections: acute, chronic, latent
- Viruses that cause cancer
- Plant viruses and the wall problem
- Worked example: the case of the inherited phage
- Worked example: picking a drug target
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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