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Why does a virus enter a cell?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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it primarily performs as a synthetic mutant antibody. When this occurs it becomes latent. As this occurs the cell becomes permeable, allowing for mutation. It's almost like going shopping for shoes, but coming home with a purse.

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It hides in the host cell without destroying it until the cell divides and makes two new cells. Once that is done the latent virus reveals itself being in both cells. Finally the virus does the rest of lytic cycle(command the cell to make more replicates of itself and then breaks free with new viruses destroying the host cell).

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Enters either a lysogenic or lytic cycle. In a lysogenic cylce, a virus becomes a provirus via reverse transcriptase, which means the viral DNA becomes incorporated into the genomic DNA. The lysogenic cycle can turn into the lytic cycle through environmental stress ie UV radiation or illness. Viruses can also just have a lytic phase in which they enter a cell, replicate, and then lyse (destroy) the cell and go on to infect other cells.

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Once a virus is inside one of the host's cells, as new virions (virus particles) are produced by the cell, these particles attach to additional cells to insert genetic material (DNA or RNA) into more and more cells. This process causes each cell to begin the replication process for the creation of new virions.

This step is one of the steps of the Lytic Cycle of viral replication. Related questions give all the steps of the process.

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The cell becomes a virus breeding machine the virus takes over the cell and uses it to make more viruses

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The virus must attach to proteins on the surface of the cell that match the virus. These are called "docking" proteins.

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A latent virus is very dangerous when it enters a cell. This virus will take over the DNA of a cell and reproduce.

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because the viruses do not have the ability to replicate themselfs.

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Google is obfuscating the issue

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