Bacteriophages are viruses which invade bacteria. The word means "bacteria eater".
Yes it is a type of bacteria
Lactobacillus is a type of bacteria commonly found in the gut and other parts of the body. It is not a virus.
Bacteriophage
virus
A virus is a non-living pathogen that invades body cells to replicate and cause infection.
The general class of these viruses are called bacteriophages. " Bacteria eaters. "
A virus that infects bacteria is called a bacteriophage. Bacteriophages are specific to infecting bacterial cells and can inject their genetic material into the host bacterium, leading to replication and eventual destruction of the bacterial cell.
yes bacteria can get a virus. A virus is a pathogen that invades the host cell, changing the make up the bacteria.
Yes it is a type of bacteria
a virus
The type of virus that kills bacteria is the bacteriophage.
Lactobacillus is a type of bacteria commonly found in the gut and other parts of the body. It is not a virus.
Vibrio cholerae is a type of bacteria that causes cholera, a serious intestinal infection. It is not a virus.
Bacteria are living cells -- cell membrane and all that cell stuff. A virus doesn't own it's own cell; it invades a cell and takes over, using the host cell to make more viruses.
Bacteriophage
No. The word pathogen means to "make disease". The type of virus that kills only bacteria are called bacteriophages which means "bacteria eaters".
A virus which invades a cell can be said to be virulent. One that causes the host cell to immediately produce virus' particles and lose it's ability to live is said to be a lytic virus. A virus that remains "silent" for awhile is called a lysogenic virus.