Virus Replication Worksheet
Day 1-2 - Viruses

Virus replication: a virulent virus may complete its lifecycle in 30 minutes, producing 200 new viruses. Carefully study the partial data table below. It shows that when the 200 new viruses each produce 200 more, there are 40,000 viruses after one hour.

hours# of virus particles# of virus particles X 200
01200
1/220040,000
140,000 
1 1/2  
2  
2 1/2  
3  
3 1/2  
4  

  1. Do the calculations needed to complete this data table.
  2. Show the completed data table to your science facilitator for approval.
  3. When your data table has been approved, use the seven steps of graphing to make a graph of the virus growth data.
  4. Graph paper link If graph is done by hand.
  • Remember that scientific notation is used to represent very large numbers.
  • Remember that the scale of your graph must cover the complete range of your data, and while the scale may be different for the X and Y axis, all squares on one axis must have the same value.

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