Please Select the True Statement Regarding Bacteriophage Life Cycles

question 1

Multiple Choice

Please select the True statement regarding bacteriophage life cycles.

• A) Temperate phages lyse their host cells, whereas lytic phages either lyse their host or integrate their DNA into the host cell's genome.
• B) Lytic phages lyse their host cells, whereas temperate phages either lyse their host or integrate their DNA into the host cell's genome.
• C) In the bacteriophage life cycle, the entire virus enters the host bacterial cell through a hole in the cell wall.
• D) Phage particles seek out their bacterial hosts by means of chemotaxis and then attach to random receptors on the host's cell wall.
• E) The burst size is the number of bacterial cells that are lysed as a result of being infected by a bacteriophage such as T4.

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