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    How Does The Viruses Infect The Body

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    Viruses live in the environment until they find a host cell to infect. They enter the body through openings like the nose, mouth, or skin breaks. Once inside a host cell, viruses hijack the cell's machinery to reproduce themselves through a lytic cycle. In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to and releases its genetic material into a host cell. It then uses the cell's enzymes to make new virus particles which assemble and break free, infecting other cells. All viruses have proteins allowing them to recognize and attach to specific host cells in order to reproduce.

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    Viruses live in the environment until they find a host cell to infect. They enter the body through openings like the nose, mouth, or skin breaks. Once inside a host cell, viruses hijack the cell's machinery to reproduce themselves through a lytic cycle. In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to and releases its genetic material into a host cell. It then uses the cell's enzymes to make new virus particles which assemble and break free, infecting other cells. All viruses have proteins allowing them to recognize and attach to specific host cells in order to reproduce.

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    Viruses live in the environment until they find a host cell to infect. They enter the body through openings like the nose, mouth, or skin breaks. Once inside a host cell, viruses hijack the cell's machinery to reproduce themselves through a lytic cycle. In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to and releases its genetic material into a host cell. It then uses the cell's enzymes to make new virus particles which assemble and break free, infecting other cells. All viruses have proteins allowing them to recognize and attach to specific host cells in order to reproduce.

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    Viruses live in the environment until they find a host cell to infect. They enter the body through openings like the nose, mouth, or skin breaks. Once inside a host cell, viruses hijack the cell's machinery to reproduce themselves through a lytic cycle. In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to and releases its genetic material into a host cell. It then uses the cell's enzymes to make new virus particles which assemble and break free, infecting other cells. All viruses have proteins allowing them to recognize and attach to specific host cells in order to reproduce.

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    How does the viruses infect the body?

    Viruses live in our environment permanently, but it just waits for a host cell to
    come along (Host cells: is the cell that viruses depend on so that they infect
    the body to reproduce). Viruses can enter our body through the nose, mouth,
    or even breaks into the skin, once they find a host cell to infect, they will
    start to attack our body systems, depends on the type of virus.

    Regardless of the type of host cell, all viruses follow the same basic steps in
    what is known as the lytic cycle:

    In the lytic cycle, the virus reproduces itself using the host cell's chemical
    machinery.

    1. A virus particle attaches to a host cell.


    2. The particle releases its genetic instructions into the host cell.
    3. The injected genetic material recruits the host cell's enzymes.
    4. The enzymes make parts for more new virus particles.
    5. The new particles assemble the parts into new viruses.
    6. The new particles break free from the host cell.

    All viruses have some type of protein on the outside coat or envelope that
    "feels" or "recognizes" the proper host cell(s). This protein attaches the virus
    to the membrane of the host cell. Some enveloped viruses can dissolve right
    through the cell membrane of the host because both the virus envelope and
    the cell membrane are made of lipids.

    Mohammad Shtayeh

    26th/March/2020

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