Please help me out with this if you can just fill in the missing parts if you know anything I'm still trying to look for them myself.
1.) Viral Name: Influenza
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
2.)Viral Name: HIV
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
3.) Viral Name: West Nile
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
4.) Viral Name: Chicken Pox
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
5.) Viral Name: Small Pox
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
6.) Viral Name: Ebola
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
7.) Viral Name: Avian (Bird flue)
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?
Please help-
Thanks A Bunch Ashley-
2007-02-05 08:28:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
1) RNA (ssRNA, serves as templete for mRNA)
transmission: air, contact
symptoms: everyone knows
interesting fact: kills more than any other disease historically
2) RNA (they're retroviruses, ssRNA, synthesizes DNA using reverse transcriptase)
direct bodily fluid contact, std
lowered T cell count
more orphans cus of AIDS than at the end of WWII
3) dunno
4) DNA? poxvirus class maybe?
don't know
get gigantic bumps all over you
5) dsDNA
aerial
similar to chicken pox
eradicated
6) dunno, i think
bodily fluid contact
gruesome death
deadliest virus known besides HIV
7) RNA
aerial
flu-like?
2007-02-08 18:01:33 · answer #1 · answered by kz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting facts:
Influenza - over 100 strains distributed globally, mostly a virus of birds but crosses species barriers amazingly.
HIV - Possesses enzyme called reverse transcriptase, allowing it to transcribe its genome into host cell DNA even though it is an RNA virus like influenza.
West Nile - Mysteriously made its first North American appearance in the New York City metro area in the latter 90's and has since spread rapidly.
Chickenpox -- actually a herpes virus which is endemic to the global human population.
Small Pox -- Wiped from the face of the earth in the 1970's, thought to exist secretly in a few bioweapons labratories around the world.
Ebola -- Efficiently escapes from host cells with a minimum amount of damage to cell walls which would normally alert the immune system. Extremely virulent and dangerous with 50-90% mortality.
"Bird Flu" -- H5N1? -- The world is possibly on the brink of a pandemic the likes of which it has never seen.
2007-02-05 09:04:29 · answer #2 · answered by dinotheorist 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
break it up into the individual viruses and u might get some help
ur asking 4 a massive chunk of info
2007-02-05 08:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by Zsanctified1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go`to the library, and get off yahoo answers!!! Do your homework first!
2007-02-07 16:55:54 · answer #4 · answered by with The Vicious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone needs to do their OWN work
2007-02-05 08:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋