As an experiment, you infect bacteria with an unknown virus to see how the bacteriophage affects the bacteria. After a few days, you notice that the bacterial population is growing normally and that the cells appear healthy. Assuming that the infection occurred, what can you conclude from your observations? Answer : The virus is a bacteriophage that is reproducing the lysogenic cycle.

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Daniel Roberts

2 March, 20:15

As an experiment, you infect bacteria with an unknown virus to see how the bacteriophage affects the bacteria. After a few days, you notice that the bacterial population is growing normally and that the cells appear healthy. Assuming that the infection occurred, what can you conclude from your observations? Answer : The virus is a bacteriophage that is reproducing the lysogenic cycle.

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George Castro · Answer 1

The virus is a bacteriophage that is reproducing the lysogenic cycle.

Explanation:

When bacteriophage infect the bacteria, it can enter one of two cycles i) lytic or ii) lysogenic cycle.

In lysogenic cycle, virus injects its genome into the bacterial chromosome, known as prophage and it replicates with bacrerial DNA. When conditions change, this prophage can remove itself from the bacterial DNA, and lysogenic cycle can change into lytic cycle.