Talk:Viral life cycle

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Constructive questions

• does this view of the life cycle only apply to the lytic one or also to the lysogenic one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomaschwutz (talk • contribs) 15:42, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Viral replication

The discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Viruses#Should Viral replication only include replication of the viral genome? Graham Beards (talk) 21:19, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Viral death

People talk about viruses 'surviving' on say, a doorknob, for a certain time depending on factors such as temperature. My question is, how is 'survival' defined for viruses? My guess as a layperson is that individual virus particles are constantly degrading by chemical reaction with the environment, and their 'death' would be the point at which they are too degraded to invade a cell and reproduce. Is this about right?
XyKyWyKy aka raffriff42 (talk) 03:11, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

In essence yes. For many viruses there are infectivity assays that can measure the amount of viable viruses. Using these assays over time shows a decline in the number of infectious "units" (which pretty much means virus particles) when exposed to degrading physical and chemical agents. For viruses it is probably wise to say "non-viable" rather than "dead". 11:40, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Ok Healtheworld3 (talk) 20:34, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

If viruses are not alive...

...then how does "Life Cycle" apply? Clean Arlene (talk) 20:14, 18 December 2022 (UTC)