This is an Introduction to Microbiology Notes, which cover Virus, and Monerans, with a mention of unicellular fungi. Read this document as an overview.
Read this Introduction to Viruses and also find out how Viruses can infect their hosts
Viruses can infect cells using the LYTIC CYCLE.
Review the
STEPS TO THE LYTIC CYLE: memorize AESAR
- Attachment
- Entry & degradation of host's DNA
- Synthesis of new viruses
- duplication of virus' genetic material
- creation of new virus parts
- Assembly of parts into new viruses
- Release of new viruses
video shows lytic cycle
COVID-19 is a virus that undergoes a lytic cycle, but it does not explode cells, instead, it simply gets released from a cell
