â30th and Main,â I replied. It was the home of one of Arielleâs book club friends, who Iâd overheard planning to âsurprise her.â Iâd never been there before, but with a little help of the internet I could easily figure out where her friend lived. Fox nodded and switched his car into gear.
bacteriophage. 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.All bacteriophages are composed of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a protein structure.ventually, new bacteriophages assemble and burst out of the bacterium in a process called lysis. Bacteriophages occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into the genome of new host cells. This process is known as transduction.
When a temperate phage undergoes the lytic cycle, it becomes a virulent phage. The infected cell and its membrane disintegrate as the viral DNA, which is considered a separate molecule from the bacterial cell, replicates separately from the DNA of the host bacteria, eventually overwhelming it.n order to infect a host cell, the bacteriophage attaches itself to the bacteriaâs cell wall, specifically on a receptor found on the bacteriaâs surface. Once it becomes tightly bound to the cell, the bacterial virus injects its genetic material (its nucleic acid) into the host cell.