Question

As an experiment, you infect bacteria with an unknown virus to see how the bacteriophage affects the bacteria. After a few days, you notice that the bacterial population is growing normally and that the cells appear healthy. Assuming that the infection occurred, what can you conclude from your observations?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Bacteriophages, are viruses that affect bacterias that could possibly kill them. Since their discovery , bacteriophages are widely use to treat various bacterial diseases in people and animals. Like all viruses, bacteriophages are very species-specific with regard to their host and usually only infect a single, bacterial species, or even specific strains within a species. In conclusion, we could infere that the bacteriophage didn't affect the bacteria and died eventually. As stated before a bacteriophage is use to kill/affect bacteria, and since the population still grew normally and cells appeared to be healthy; then we could conclude that the bacteriophage didn't affected the bacteria and eventually died.