Morphology
- Virions consist of a capsid.
- Virus capsid is not enveloped, round with icosahedral
symmetry.
- The isometric capsid diameter : 50 nm.
- The capsid shells of virions are composed of multiple
layers.
- Capsids appear round. The capsomer arrangement is
clearly visible.
Replication
- Replication
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7 Hush Tom never mind it, for when your head's bare,
8 You know that the soot cannot spoil your while hair.
9 And so he was quiet, & that very night,
10 as Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight,
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out.
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cant see her face from this angle. But in her limp hand is a gun. And
all around that hand, speckling the pristine white tile of the bathroom
and the carpeting beyond, is BLOOD.
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INT. COUNSELORS OFFICE -- DAY
The bell
leaf is a different shade of amber and gold. The
helicopter drops down between the branches and lands on an immaculately
tended lawn. Surrounding it are the gracious buildings of a great
university. Harvard.
Two paramedics clamber out of the back of the helicopter and load a
stainless steel casket onto a gurney. They wheel it fast towards one of the
buildings. As they go through the front doors,