Question

4. How do viruses reproduce?

5. What is a provirus?


6. What makes viruses difficult to cure?


7. What is unique about the HIV virus?

Answer 1

4. Some viruses reproduce using both methods, while others only use the lytic cycle. In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to the host cell and injects its DNA. Using the host's cellular metabolism, the viral DNA begins to replicate and form proteins. Then fully formed viruses assemble.

5. A provirus is a virus genome that is integrated into the DNA of a host cell.