Viruses Lab Report

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Viruses are an intriguing organisms that have both living and nonliving characteristics. During the 1800’s scientists thought viruses were toxins because they could not grow it in an agar plate and also viruses passed through a Chamberlain filter which was known to filter out bacteria. Not until 1898 when a famous researcher named Martinus Beijerinck performed an experiment by trying to grow the so called “Toxin” in an agar plate with a living tissue extracted from a plant (2). Viruses have specificity, in that the affect a specific type of cell (1). For instance, a virus strain named Coliphage T4 only affects E. coli because it can interact with E. coli receptors. The purpose of this experiment is to measure the concentration of virus in

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