Question

Define virulent phage. Give an example.

Answer 1

A virulent phage is a virus that infects bacteria marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course and that’s able to overcome bodily defensive mechanisms. Eg. Bacteriophage.

Answer 2

Virulent phage or lytic phage is a part of lifecycle of virus in which the virus infected bacterium brokes down and the virus which is present inside the bacterium comes out of the host cell into the environment.

Virus infects the bacterial cell and replicates its genetic material within the host cell and after sometime lysis of baterial cell takes place and the virus comes out of the bacterium

Example of such phages is T-phage.