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World 4 · Build a Virus · 12 min · PRO

Hijack: the lytic cycle

How a virus makes copies of itself

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  • A virus is not a cell
  • Capsid geometry: why icosahedra?
  • Lytic or lysogenic? The patient strategy
  • Why viruses keep changing
  • The soap molecule
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