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Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases they cause, the techniques to ...
There are six basic, overlapping stages in the life cycle of viruses in living cells: [38] Attachment is the binding of the virus to specific molecules on the surface of the cell. This specificity restricts the virus to a very limited type of cell.
Their life cycle differs greatly between species, but there are six basic stages in their life cycle: [26]: 75–91 Attachment is a specific binding between viral capsid proteins and specific receptors on the host cellular surface. This specificity determines the host range and type of host cell of a virus.
Virology: the study of viruses; Nematology: the study of nematodes; Microbial cytology: the study of microscopic and submicroscopic details of microorganisms; Microbial physiology: the study of how the microbial cell functions biochemically. Includes the study of microbial growth, microbial metabolism and microbial cell structure
Virology is often considered a subfield of microbiology or of medical science. virome viropexis The active uptake by a host cell of viral particles (typically bound to receptors on the cell surface) by a non-specific pinocytic process. [3] Viropexis is an important method of viral penetration of host cells. virophage viroplasm virostatic
Virus classification. Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms.
Viral transformation is the change in growth, phenotype, or indefinite reproduction of cells caused by the introduction of inheritable material. Through this process, a virus causes harmful transformations of an in vivo cell or cell culture.
Viral evolution is a subfield of evolutionary biology and virology concerned with the evolution of viruses. [1] [2] Viruses have short generation times, and many—in particular RNA viruses—have relatively high mutation rates (on the order of one point mutation or more per genome per round of replication).