September 25th - Membranous Envelope

Today, we looked further into the membranous envelope and how it is formed. We looked specifically about endocytosis and exocytosis and their importance in membranous envelope formation. Please remember that viruses are specific to specific organisms. The viruses recognize the cells that it can infect via the glycoproteins on the surface of the virus. These surface proteins recognize the correct proteins on the host cell and allows the virus to know that it can infect this certain cell. 

Mr. Jay