How Viruses Replicate

This video has excellent animations and videos showing how viruses enter and take over a host cell.  Keep in mind the questions that you are trying to answer from the Study Guide

5. Explain how a virus infects and reproduces inside a host cell. Use the following vocabulary, capsid, host membrane proteins, viral genetic material, replication, lysis

Optional: videos

• • • comparing bacteria and viruses Links to an external site. 
    • showing viruses self assembly Links to an external site. 

Optional: the section from your text book on viruses. Again, it goes into much more detail than I do. 

• • • Chapter 17.1 Viruses Links to an external site. 

Optional website

• • Virus Explorer: great visuals and information about different types of viruses Links to an external site.