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Answer all the questions and fill in the blank. Use the slides I attached.
1. What type of diseases can gene therapy treat? How are viruses involved in this therapy?
2.What type of diseases can phage therapy treat? How are viruses involved?
3.Viral genomes are tiny compared with those of living organisms.  How can they have more variety than the genomes of living organisms?
4.Name all the structures of an enveloped virus (such as the HIV virus).
5.The primary virus classification method is based on _______.
6.Why is capsid an essential structure for a virus virulence?
7.What is a prophage? Does lysogenic conversion benefits the virus or the host cell?
8.The structure of an enveloped virus responsible for host specificity is _________.
9.The three mechanisms of viral latency in animals are _______ , _______ is responsible for the viral genes the human genome.
10.Enveloped animal viruses can enter the host cell through _______  and exit through _______ ; Naked animal viruses can enter through _______ and exit through _______.
11.Watch the Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body video on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpj0emEGShQ) and answer the following questions:

The locks and keys of the flu virus in the video are called  _______  and _______  in our PPT slides.  Using terms from slides, the influenza virus enters the host cell through    and exits through _______ . The two reasons that an infected person doesn’t drop dead in 10 minutes are _______ .

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