Question

Which of the following steps occurs when the varicella-zoster virus initially infects the body? Upon initial infection, the viral DNA destroys host DNA. Upon initial infection, the viral DNA is replicated. Upon initial infection, the host cell is destroyed. Upon initial infection, the host cell is not destroyed.

Answer 1

The virus would first have to replicate before it would kill the cell because the point of a virus is to replicate and survive in a host. So once the herpes virus injects it’s DNA into the cell, the virus tricks the cell to make that DNA. In the end the cell makes the viral DNA and the cell dies do to over replication of the viral DNA