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Explain the process by which a single microscopic bacteriophagecan produce a plaque in a lawn of bacteria that is visible to thenaked eye: infection, replication etc.

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Bacteriophage as its name suggested eats bacteria It is Viruses that live as intracellular parasites They have capability of multiplication and replication inside the bacterial host They use the host machinery for the replication process They complete their life cycle inside the host cell in two ways either thay can be lysogenic    See Answer
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