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