BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
VIRUSES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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FALSE
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TRUE
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phages are a type of virus that infect bacteria. In fact, “phage” means to eat in Greek. So, a bacteriophage is a virus that eats bacteria.
Detailed explanation-2: -A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word “bacteriophage” literally means “bacteria eater, ” because bacteriophages destroy their host cells.
Detailed explanation-3: -A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. They enter bacterial cells and use the cellular machinery to make many copies of themselves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Phages, formally known as bacteriophages, are viruses that solely kill and selectively target bacteria. They are the most common biological entities in nature, and have been shown to effectively fight and destroy multi-drug resistant bacteria.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which of the following statements about bacteriophage is false? Group of answer choices Bacteriophages do not have a viral envelope. A temperate phage can have its DNA integrated into the host chromosome as a prophage.