Lytic Cycle
The first part of the lytic cycle.
What is attaching to the bacterium and injecting DNA/RNA?
The first part of the lysogenic cycle
What is attaching and injecting DNA/RNA?
If the DNA is successfully injected, the bacteria perform this action to the phage's genetic material.
what is chop up the DNA?
What are Bacteriophages?
the type of microbe that a bacteriophage is
what is a virus?
The material that a phage injects into the bacterium
What is DNA or RNA?
The state the phage/DNA/RNA is in when it is in the bacterium
what is dormant?
Something the phage has to find in order to even begin its cycles
What is the right bacteria?
Superbugs are dangerous because they have become resistant to these common medications.
What are antibiotics?
The coat of a bacteriophage
what is a capsid
The amount of time Sydney learns that a lytic cycle can be completed in.
what is a few minutes?
What the cell does with the phages DNA inside of it?
what is reproduces?
The most extreme measure a bacteria will take to stop a virus from infecting
what is kill itself?
C. Diff, salmonella, malaria, and tuberculosis are all examples of these hard-to-treat infections that phage therapy could potentially combat.
What are superbugs?
the span of genes that can be in phages
what is 3 - 300?
what the phage does to the bacterium after it has reproduced.
what is ruptures it?
The phage continues in this cycle until one of two things happens: it hijacks the cell or the bacteria ____
A simple measure the bacterium will take to stop the virus from taking root
what is stop the bacteria from attaching?
Something that was used to treat dangerous infections that were incurable by antibiotics.
What are experimental Bacteriophages
the number of types of phages that are found in our microbiome
what is thousands?