Some viruses can be crystallized and their structures analyzed. One such virus is Desmodium, or yellow mottle virus, which infects beans. This is a member of the tymovirus group and has a single-stranded RNA genome of ~6,300 nucleotides. Its virion is 25—30 nm in diameter, and is made up of 180 copies of a single capsid protein that self-associate to form each capsomere, which has icosahedral symmetry with 20 facets.
If this virus has a positive RNA strand as its genome, it begins the infection by using this strand as mRNA. Therefore, which of the following do you expect to be able to measure?
A) replication rate
B) transcription rate
C) translation rate
D) accumulation of new ribosomes
E) formation of new transcription factors
The deadly Ebola virus
(a) Initial mtDNA results suggested modern humans and Neadertals were equally distantly related to D
Paul Strand, Geometric Backyards, New York.
Double strand of DNA
Sample prescriptions of drugs for oral herpes infection.
Manhattan plots resulting from a genome-wide association study of seven common human disease