Viruses

Readings

Introduction to the Viruses- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/virus.html

Viruses, viruses, viruses by David Baltimore
http://eands.caltech.edu/articles/LXVII1/viruses.html


Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course a fully engaged student should be able to

- discuss the characteristics of a virus
- discuss the basic shapes of viruses
- define "bacteriophage"
- compare and contrast the mechanism gene injection of viruses that infect bacteria and those that attack animal cells
- distinguish between the infection pathways of DNA viruses, simple RNA viruses, and retroviruses