{"id":44,"date":"2011-11-06T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T23:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2011-11-18T17:33:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:33:55","slug":"key-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/reading-summary\/key-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phage Virus:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/files\/2011\/11\/virus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51\" title=\"virus\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/files\/2011\/11\/virus-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>A virus is a small, non-living, infectious agent\u00a0that replicates only inside living\u00a0 organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea.\u00a0 Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem and are the most abundant type of biological entity. (Microphage).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Techno-virus:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/files\/2011\/11\/tecno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53\" title=\"tecno\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/files\/2011\/11\/tecno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>The techno-virus starts as an infectious technical idea or a commitment to owning the technical device.\u00a0 The virus replicates only inside of a living organism and will infect only one type of organism, the human.\u00a0 Techno-viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host organism:<\/strong> the living organism that a phage virus needs to infect in order to replicate and propagate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host Individual:<\/strong> the living organism that conceives a techno-virus (idea) and\/or commits to owning the virus (technical device)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host range:<\/strong> both the phage virus and the techno-virus have a narrow host range; meaning they infect only one type of living organism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ecosystem:<\/strong> within our metaphor, the ecosystem of the techno-virus will be the culture of the host individual.\u00a0 For instance, we can take a student out of their cultural context and put him\/her into a class but\u00a0 we cannot take the culture out of the student<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarantine:<\/strong> a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of a virus<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mutation:<\/strong> The changing of the genetic structure within a phage or techno-virus , resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations (For example, the mutation of educational technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-z1iXz3SDo\">video<\/a>, 1900-1990)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attachment:<\/strong> irreversible attachment of the virus\/techno-virus to a host organism\/host individual<\/p>\n<p><strong>Injection:<\/strong> the virus\/techno-virus inserts its information into the host organism\/host individual, forcing\u00a0the host\u00a0to produce the necessary parts that will assemble and become progeny viruses<\/p>\n<p><strong>Replication:<\/strong> the virus\/techno-virus replicates inside the host organism\/host individual, producing thousands of progeny viruses<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lysis:<\/strong> The host organism\/host individual releases the progeny viruses to the\u00a0 open environment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Microphage. (2003-2011). Bacteriophage Technology. Retrieved November 8,2011, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microphage.com\/technology\/phageBiology.cfm\">http:\/\/www.microphage.com\/technology\/phageBiology.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phage Virus: A virus is a small, non-living, infectious agent\u00a0that replicates only inside living\u00a0 organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea.\u00a0 Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem and are the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/reading-summary\/key-terms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10249,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/380"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecologicalperspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}