微生物学英文教学课件：chapter8 The Viruses Introduction and General Characteristics.ppt

(1)nucleic acid type (2) nucleic acid strandedness (3) presence or absence of an envelope Recently, the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses has developed a uniform classification system and divided viruses into 56 families. The committee places greatest weight on three properties: Schematic representations of the main types of bacterial viruses Tailed bacteriophage : Genome: DNA, double-stranded. Virion: complex shape, binary symmetry, variable number of capsomers. The tails of the phage are long and contractile in group A , long and noncontractile in group B, and very short i