virus

     

I: sDNA viruses II: ssDNA viruses III: dsRNA viruses IV: (+)ssRNA viruses V: (-)ssRNA viruses VI: ssRNA-RT viruses VII: dsDNA-RT viruses

Trivia about virus

  • 5-letter term for an "infectious" program designed to harm your computer
  • Downloading off the net may have infected your system with one of these programs, Latin for "poison"
  • Malware can generate this type of threat that's also the name for an infectious agent that plagues humans
  • A submicroscopic entity that only lives in a cell of another living organism
  • In 1995 Dustin Hoffman as a doctor, not a hacker, fought an "outbreak" of a deadly one of these
  • The Latin for "poison", it needs to be in a living cell to reproduce
  • (Here's Dr. Baltimore again):"This infectious agent that lives inside a cell & causes disease can be 100 times smaller than a bacterium"
  • In 1898, Beijerinck, a Dutch scientist, realized there were pathogens smaller than bacteria & named them this
  • If you email your resume, make sure the attachment doesn't contain this infectious computer agent
  • Yellow fever is caused by one of these microorganisms that get transmitted by mosquito bites
  • The 1990s "Good Times" one, which would erase your hard drive if you opened an e-mail, was a hoax