VIRUSES lesson 10: Vaccines and anti-virals Quizellenj2023-07-28T14:36:35-04:00 Please sign up for the course before taking this quiz. 1. The goal of an anti-viral medicine is to block or break a viral part without harming the body cell.1 True False 2. Which one is true of Acyclovir?1 It blocks the M2 channel. It binds to neuraminidase. It mimics a guanine rung. It prevents fusion with the cell membrane. 3. What is the purpose of an adjuvant?1 To be a preservative that will increase the shelf life of the vaccine. To add an additional chemical that will help to poison the virus. To prevent other immune cells from hindering the antibody repsonse by T and B cells. To get other types of immune cells to help with the antibody repsonse by T and B cells. 4. Only guanine rungs can be mimicked by anti-viral analogue medicines.1 True False 5. Which researcher used chemicals to damage the polio virus?1 Sabin Salk 6. What does the word “attenuated” mean?1 weakened mutated recycled killed 7. Polio’s genome has been completely mapped out, down to every last rung of its RNA.1 True False 8. Sabin knew exactly how his vaccine worked.1 True False 9. There is just one type of influezna vaccine.1 True False 10. Immune cells must have whole virus capsids in order to make antibodies.1 True False 11. How can viruses become resistant to anti-viral medicines?1 By acquiring more protein tools inside their capsids. Their protease "scissors" develop the ability to shred the medicine molecules. By changing their genomes from RNA to DNA, or vice versa. Through mutations to the genome which cause tiny changes in the shapes of their proteins. 12. Only immune system cells have MHC-2 receptors.1 True False 13. Only B cells can become memory cells.1 True False 14. There are still some viruses for which we have neither vaccine nor anti-viral medicine.1 True False 15. Sabin’s attenuated polio vaccine could still infect intestinal cells.1 True False VIRUSES lesson 9: The Body Fights Back VIRUSES: Bonus info and extra resources Back to: VIRUSES lesson 10: Vaccines and anti-virals
