Self Quiz for Bacteriophage Life Cycle: The Lytic Life Cycle

Self Quiz for Bacteriophage Life Cycles: The Lytic Life Cycle

Study the material in this section and then write out the answers to these questions.
Do not just click on the answers and write them out. This will not test your understanding of this tutorial.

1. Describe the 5 steps involved in the lytic life cycle of bacteriophages.

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2. As will be seen in lab, phage typing is a technique wherein unknown strains of a bacterium are identified by using known strains of bacteriophages. How can we use a bacteriophage to identify a bacterium? (ans)

3. We saw in the previous section that a single infected animal cell may produce 10,000-50,000 viruses yet an infected bacterium can only produce 50-200 bacteriophages. Explain this. (ans)

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