Learning Objectives for "Animal Virus Life Cycles: The Productive Life Cycle"

After completing this section you should be able to perform the following objectives.

1.**Describe how an enveloped virus accomplishes each of the following steps during the productive life cycle.

A. viral attachment or adsorption to the host cell

B. viral entry into the host cell

C. viral movement to the site of replication within the host cell

D. viral replication within the host cell

E. viral assembly or maturation within the host cell

F. viral release from the host cell

2.**Describe how a naked virus accomplishes each of the following steps during the productive life cycle.

A. viral attachment or adsorption to the host cell

B. viral entry into the host cell

C. viral movement to the site of replication within the host cell

D. viral replication within the host cell

E. viral assembly or maturation within the host cell

F. viral release from the host cell

3. Define eclipse period.

(*) or (**) = possible discussion question

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