Objectives for Viral Structure

Learning Objectives for "Viral Structure"

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

1.* Describe what an animal virus consists of structurally.

2. Define the following:

a. capsid

b. capsomere

c. nucleocapsid.

3. Describe how most animal viruses obtain their envelope.

4. State why some bacteriophages are more complex than typical polyhedral or helical viruses.

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