The correct answer is: C) A large number of phages are released at a time
Lytic cycle of a bacteriophage is one of the two life cycles of viruses, other being lysogenic. Lytic cycle can be divided in stages:
• Attachment-viruses binds to the receptor on the surface of bacterial cell, usually it uses tail for the attachment
• Entrance-virus injects its genome material (DNA or RNA) into bacteria cell
• Replication and protein synthesis-virus uses mechanism of bacteria to replicate its genome and produce proteins. As a consequence, a huge number of new viruses are formed
• Lysis- viruses express protein for the bacterial lysis (bacterial cell expand and burst) and hundreds of new phages are released.
