In which of the following cases will the viral progeny generated retain their infection ability?
A. A generalized trasducing phage affects a normal cell
B. A specialized transducing phage affects a cell infected by same virus
C. A specialized transducing phage will attack a normal cell
D. A generalized transducing phage will affect a cell with a different viral infection
Answer:B
In which of the following cases will the viral progeny generated retain their infection ability?
A. A generalized trasducing phage affects a normal cell B. A specialized transducing phage affects a cell infected by same virus C. A specialized transducing phage will attack a normal cell D. A generalized transducing phage will affect a cell with a different viral infection
Explanation: When the recipient is already infected by the same virus the complete genome of specialized tranducing phage is already present. This will produce normal infective virus as well as more specialized transducing infective viruses.