Assignment task: Need answers to some questions about viruses and bacteria.
1. Why are viruses not living organisms?
2. What are 3 diseases caused by viruses?
3. Define vaccine?
4. How are viruses transmitted?
5. Define symptoms?
6. Why do vaccines NOT protect us against all viral diseases? Need an example.
7. If an epidemic were declared in our town. What would happen to control and eventually eliminate it? (basically what happened with covid)
8. If you opened up a virus, what would you find?
9. Where does viral reproduction occur?
10. Can a virus be grown in a nutrient agar as bacteria are? Why or why not?
11. Why does antibiotics work against bacteria but not viruses?
12. How can a vaccine protect us against a disease?
13. Who invented the first polio vaccine?
14. What is the best defense against most viral diseases?