Question: nucleic acid genome

Answer: passes information from one generation to the next and all viruses have one.

Question: capsid

Answer: a protein coat that surrounds the nucleic acid core

Question: envelope

Answer: surrounds the capsid but only some viruses have this not all.

Question: bacteriophages

Answer: viruses that infect bacteria

Question: phage typing

Answer: identification of bacterial strains using infectivity by different bacteriophages

Question: virulent phage

Answer: A phage that reproduces only by a lytic cycle.

Question: lyctic cycle

Answer:

Question: temperate phage

Answer: a phage that is capable of replicating by either a lytic or lysogenic cycle

Question: lysogenic cycle

Answer:

Question: prophage

Answer: the phage nucleic acid becomes integrated into the host DNA and replicates along with it