Question

What part of the virus allows it to enter a specific host cell?

What part of the host cell lets the virus in?
Please answer only in a few words not sentences

Answer 1

The fusion event is when the virus membrane and the host cell membrane fuse together allowing a virus to enter. It does this by attachment or adsorption onto a susceptible cell; a cell which holds a receptor that the virus can bind to.

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Answer 2

Attachment proteins in the capsid; Host cell membrane

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