Please help in as simple of terms as possible First you will

Please help in as simple of terms as possible.

First you will focus on actual viral growth inside a human body. Pick a virus and research its growth rate. If you are having trouble finding a growth rate for a specific virus, make up your own growth rate. Use your growth rate to create an exponential growth function. Make a table for the number of virions (virus particles) that can grow inside a human body. Start with one virion on the first day, and continue the table for two weeks. How does that compare to the number of cells in a person’s body? You will submit the following. a. a comparison to the overall number of cells b. a growth function c. a table of virions 2. Now use a graphing calculator or computer program to graph your function from part 1. Your body also has ways of hunting and destroying viruses it finds in your body. Describe how the behaviors of the graph would change if you took into consideration other factors, like the immune system working or the physical limitations of your body. Can you think of any additional factors that could be considered? You will submit the following. a. a graph of the number of virions in the body b. additional factors to be considered c. changes in the graph from other factors 3. Could the same general exponential growth model apply to the spread of a virus from person to person, instead of growth of a virus inside a body? What factors could influence the spread of a virus from person to person? Write a brief paragraph comparing the growth of a virus inside a single person to the spread of a virus from person to person. How might it be the same, how might it be different? You will submit a brief paragraph.

Solution

Firstly viruses are similar to living organisms but are not as they do reproduce asexually or sexually they replicate using the host\'s replication system. They are specific to particular species. The infection causes the protein of the virus to interact with the cellular proteins of the cell membrane thus helping the virus to enter into the cell following this the virus enters into the host\'s nucleus and takes over to reproduce the genetic material of the virus.