Virology: Diversity of Viruses
A beginner's course in virology: what viruses are, how they are built and how they multiply, and how the Baltimore system sorts them into seven groups – from herpesviruses and influenza to HIV.
What you'll learn
- Introduction to Viruses and Virus Structure
- Classifying Viruses: The Baltimore System
- New chapter
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth and the cause of many of the most important diseases of people, animals and plants. This course starts from zero. In Class 1 you learn what a virus is, why viruses sit between the living and the non-living, how every virus takes over a cell in seven steps, and how capsids and envelopes are built. In Class 2 you learn how viruses are classified by the ICTV and by the Baltimore system, and you study all seven Baltimore groups: their genomes, how they make mRNA, where they replicate and the diseases they cause. Every new word is linked to the course glossary, and every topic has practice activities.
Entry requirements
- Basic school biology: cells, DNA and proteins
Lecturers
- Dr. Nimal FernandoLead lecturer · networking, cisco, network design