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Viruses: Meet the Microbes
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Viruses: Meet the Microbes Lecture Materials
You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
Page last updated 2/2016
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LECTURE POWERPOINT
Versions of Virus Types PPT:
- Student's Virus Types PowerPoint Show
- Student's Virus Types PowerPoint PDF Printout
Printing: The best way for students to print out the PowerPoint Show is to download the PDF version. Select Print, and, when the Print screen comes up, go to the Print Handling options. Under Page Scaling, select "Multiple pages per sheet". Under Pages Per Sheet, select "2". That uses up less paper placing two slides on each page.
VIRUS TYPES HOMEWORK
Hidden Virus Homework Assignment: This assignment will help you understand what it takes for a virus to be super sneaky.
REQUIRED READING
See Moodle and your textbook for additional reading assignments.
- What Is a Virus? Structure, Classification & Reproduction
- Is It a Cold or The Flu? How to Determine If You Have a Common Cold or Influenza
West nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the difference between an enveloped and non-enveloped virus?
- Viruses have one of four different basic types of genomes. For each virus described in this lecture, know its genome type and whether it is enveloped or non-enveloped.
- Know the names and descriptions of the different types of herpes viruses.
- HIV (Human-immunodeficiency-virus) is a retrovirus. Understand the key difference between a retrovirus and other types of viruses.
- Know which type of viruses can cause the common cold.
- Be able to describe what HPV, is and its relationship to cancer.
- Understand the two ways we discussed that viruses can hide.
- Know what a prophage is, and what is necessary for a virus to be a prophage.
- Be able to describe the difference between modified live and killed virus vaccines.
- What is West Nile Virus (WNV)? What are the symptoms of WNV? How do you protect yourself from WNV? See US maps of West Nile Virus incidence from the CDC.
The VMC lecture materials on types of viruses include:
- list of learning objectives
- PowerPoint lecture
- homework assignment
- practice test & review questions
PRACTICE TEST & REVIEW QUESTIONS
These multiple-choice / matching practice test questions and essay review questions are designed to help you better understand the viral infectious diseases introduced in this lecture.
MORE VIRUS-RELATED LINKS
- Play Pandemic 2 a video game of strategy, where you try to become a successful pandemic microbe and infect the world. My teenage daughter and I recommend this one to you.
- HIV Replication animation and quiz from McGraw-Hill.
- Life and Death Battle: Animated video clip from "Battlefield Cell" episode of Curiosity
- Cell Breach: Animated video clip from "Battlefield Cell" episode of Curiosity
- Play “Sneeze”, an online game where the object is to infect as many people as possible with your coughs and sneezes.
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