Question

4. How does a lytic virus kill the cells that it infects?

A. It stops energy production by the cell's mitochondria.
O B. It allows the cell's cytoplasm to enter the nucleus, which destroys the cell's DNA.
O C. It causes the cell membrane to rupture.
OD. It destroys chlorophyll molecules so that the cell cannot conduct photosynthesis.

Answer 1

Answer: Option C.

It causes the cell membrane to rupture.

Step-by-step explanation:

Lytic virus is a virus that replicate through lytic cycle. The lytic cycle is a cycle that cause destruction to cell and it's membrane.

In lytic Infections, when the virus enter it's host, it's replicate several copies of itself using the host resources and then the cell membrane become rupture and several virus copies occupy it.

Example is bacteriophage.