Self Quiz for Animal Virus Life Cycles: The Life Cycle of HIV

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
Do not just click on the answers and write them out. This will not test your understanding of this tutorial.

1.Describe how the retrovirus HIV-1 accomplishes each of the following steps during its life cycle. (Include the following key words in your description: gp120, CD4, chemokine receptors, gp41, capsid, RNA genome, reverse transcriptase, double-stranded DNA intermediate, provirus, polyproteins, proteases, and budding.)

A. viral attachment or adsorption to the host cell (ans)

B. viral entry into the host cell (ans)

C. viral movement to the site of replication within the host cell and production of a provirus. (ans)

D. viral replication within the host cell (ans)

E. viral assembly or maturation within the host cell and release from the host cell (ans)

2. Name 3 types of cells HIV primarily infects and briefly explain why. (ans)

3. HIV possesses a genome of RNA. How then is HIV able to insert into the DNA of host cells and form a provirus? (ans)

4. Multiple Choice (ans)

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