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Obligate parasite that requires a host cell to replicate.
Genetic material, capsid, and sometimes a supercapsid.
Lack cellular structure, metabolism, and organelles.
The host cell is destroyed, releasing new viruses.
A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
Very small, lack metabolism, reproduce only in host cells.
Lytic cycle destroys the host cell immediately; lysogenic cycle integrates into host DNA.
The virus attaches to the bacterial cell.
It aids in penetrating host cells.
They help the virus attach to the host bacterium.