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Bacteriophages are viruses which invade bacteria. The word means "bacteria eater".

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What type of the virus invades bacteria?

The general class of these viruses are called bacteriophages. " Bacteria eaters. "


What is a virus called that invades bacteria?

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.


Can bacteria get a viris?

yes bacteria can get a virus. A virus is a pathogen that invades the host cell, changing the make up the bacteria.


Is a bacteria a type of virus?

Yes it is a type of bacteria


What is a nonliving particle that invades a cell?

a virus


What type of virus kills batcteria?

The type of virus that kills bacteria is the bacteriophage.


Is Lactobacillus virus or bacteria?

Lactobacillus is a type of bacteria commonly found in the gut and other parts of the body. It is not a virus.


Is vibro-Cholerea an bacteria or virus?

Vibrio cholerae is a type of bacteria that causes cholera, a serious intestinal infection. It is not a virus.


What is the structural difference between a virus or bacteria?

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.


What type of virus affects bacteria?

Bacteriophage


Is a pathogen a type of virus that only kills bacteria?

No. The word pathogen means to "make disease". The type of virus that kills only bacteria are called bacteriophages which means "bacteria eaters".


What do you call that a virus invades?

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.