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if your talking about the cell then they can be any shape
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∙ 9y agoViruses come in a variety of shapes from small round ball to spaghetti like strands. Viruses are also seen as geometric shapes, rods and bullet like shapes.
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What are the 3 main shapes of viruses?
a sphere, spiral and a rod
What is the geometric shape does a virous prefer?
Viruses have different geometrical shapes, such as helical and polyhedral shapes. A particular polyhedral shape common to many viruses is a dodecahedron shape. This is a geometric shape that has 12 sides.
What are three shapes of viruses?
For computer viruses, they have no physical shape, they are a string or program of codes that are made to effect files Regular viruses have a shape, but they are not needed as they dont effect what they do. Viruses just look like any bacterium, or in a spiderlike form.
What are two shapes of viruses?
Viruses have four main shapes: 1. spherical (like a ball) 2. helical (like a corkscrew or a spring) 3. Icosahedron (a twenty-sided shape kind of like two prisms glued together) 4. Bacteriophage (an icosahedron head and a spider-like tail)
Are all viruses the same shape or size?
THere are many Different shapes and sizes of Virus' ... See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
Do viruses come in many shapes and sizes?
yes but a lot of viruses are copies of themselves
What are the 3 main shapes of viruses?
a sphere, spiral and a rod
What is the geometric shape does a virous prefer?
Viruses have different geometrical shapes, such as helical and polyhedral shapes. A particular polyhedral shape common to many viruses is a dodecahedron shape. This is a geometric shape that has 12 sides.
How would you describe the size of viruses?
Viruses come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Viruses range in size between 20 to 750 nucleotides, which is considered smaller than the width of human hair.
All viruses have the same shape?
No, viruses come in all shapes. Google T even viruses, adenoviruses, HIV and other retroviruses and see all the different shapes viruses can come in. Round capsids to space ship lander shaped capsids.
What are three shapes of viruses?
For computer viruses, they have no physical shape, they are a string or program of codes that are made to effect files Regular viruses have a shape, but they are not needed as they dont effect what they do. Viruses just look like any bacterium, or in a spiderlike form.
What shapes do virus assume?
Viruses can be helical and icosahedral forms or even more complex structures. Most viruses are about one one-hundredth the size of the average bacterium.
Are the outer coats of all viruses alike?
No. They come in different shapes and sizes and composition. That's why it's so hard to produce medications that will effectively treat viruses.
What characteristics do scientists use to group viruses?
Viruses can be grouped by their shape, the type of disease they cause, their life cycle, or the kind of genetic material they contain. And, the four main shapes of viruses are: Crystals, Spheres, Cylinders, and Spacecraft.
What shape is a virus?
The shape of viruses varies greatly. They can be shaped like small balls (spherical viruses) like strands of spaghetti (flexous viruses) rigid rods, like bullets (baciliform viruses) and like geometric shapes (isocohedral viruses) The smallest viruses can be as small as 20nm (20/1,000,000 of a mm) to as much as 2,000 nm for some flexous plant viruses.
What are two shapes of viruses?
Viruses have four main shapes: 1. spherical (like a ball) 2. helical (like a corkscrew or a spring) 3. Icosahedron (a twenty-sided shape kind of like two prisms glued together) 4. Bacteriophage (an icosahedron head and a spider-like tail)
What shape is sars?
Viruses are not alive and therefore taxonomists have not yet classified viruses into specific shapes. However, they are enveloped, single stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses (27-31kb) with club-shaped surface about 120-160 nm in diameter that resemble a "corona".
