The story for kids
This is a coronavirus. Its little spikes look like a crown, and the word for crown in Latin is corona. A virus isn't really alive on its own. It needs one of our cells to make more of itself. But antibodies stick to its spikes and stop it.
Facts
- Its spikes look like a crown, so it is called "corona", which means crown.
- A virus is not alive on its own: it needs a cell to multiply.
- Antibodies stick to the spikes and don't let it get in.
Numbers
- Size
- ~0.0001 mm
- Reproduces
- Only inside a cell
- Stopped by
- Antibodies