What happends when a bacteriophage infects a bacterial cell?

Answer 1

The phage injects it's genetic material into the bacteria this can either be RNA, DNA or both. This genetic material is then translated into viral proteins which are assembled into new viruses along with a brand new genetic package ready to infect a new bacteria.

Answer 2

When the bacteriophage DNA becomes part of the bacterial chromosome:

it can never exit the genome and initiate viral replication

it kills the cell

it has entered the lytic cycle

it has entered the lysogenic cycle

Answer 3

Bacteria are MUCH BIGGER than viruses. A virus is a bacteriophage. When the virus infects the bacteria, the virus injects the bacteria with it's DNA code. The virus' DNA code starts to multiply inside the bacteria, which then bursts, and the infected bacteria cells multiply over and over again.

Answer 4

When it has replicated multiple times within the host cell. They need to be liberated, so they disrupt the membrane and burst open, thereby killing the infected host cell. This a part of the lytic cycle.

Answer 5

When a bacteriophage infects a bacterial cell, it injects it's DNA into the cell, which then replicates and creates viral mRNA that is then packaged to reform multiple phages that may release from the original bacterial cell in a lytic or lysogenic fashion

Answer 6

Bio synthesis of viral nucleic acids and proteins immediately occur after the viral DNA reached the bacterial cytoplasm.

Answer 7

the bacterial cell can or may turn into a harmful cell

Answer 8

When a bacteriophage infects a bacterial cell, the cell begins to create more bacteriophages, until the cell bursts and dies, releasing more bacteriophages.