Q. Identify the correct pair of events when temperate phages infect bacteria. I. No prophages are formed II. Bacterial cell undergoes many divisions. III. Bacterial cell undergoes immediate lysis. IV. Prophages are formed The correct pair is
A) I and II
B) II and III
C) III and IV
D) II and IV
Explanation
Temperate phages are the avirulent lysogenic phages whose nucleic acids get incorporated in the bacterial DNA (lysogenization). When these phages infect bacteria, the phage genome interated tobacterial chromosome and bacterial cell undergoes many divisions.
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