Virus Explorer

Click through the Characteristics of Viruses Google Slide Presentation and answer the following questions. Then, launch the HHMI Biointeractive Virus
Explorer and choose 3 viruses that interest you and fill in the following chart.

1. What is the name of the protective protein that surrounds the genomic material in viruses?

2. How do viruses reproduce?

3. Sometimes viruses have a structure called an envelope as another form of protection. It forms when a virus leaves a host cell to infect
another cell. What part of the host cell is the envelope made of?

Drawing
What Treatment
(Click on the box below and Enveloped or Who is the Mode of is Available? Is
Virus then click “Edit” to Draw) Naked?
Shape of Capsid Genome Type
Target Host? Transmission There a Vaccine
Available?