EAMCET Medical EAMCET Medical Solved Paper-2009

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    Identify the correct pair of events when temperate phages infect bacteria. (i) No prophages are formed (ii) Bacterial cell undergoes many divisions (iii) Bacterial cell undergoes immediate lysis (iv) Prophages are formed The correct pair is

    A)  (i),(ii)                                   

    B)  (ii),(iii)

    C)  (iii),(iv)                                

    D)  (ii), (iv)

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

                     Temperate phages are the avirulent lysogenic phages whose nucleic acids gets incorporated in the bacterial DNA (lysogenization). When these phages infect bacteria, bacterial cell undergoes many divisions and prophages are formed.


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