What event divides the early and late period of phage infection?

a. injection of phage DNA into the bacterial cell
b. production of enzymes for DNA synthesis
c. phage DNA replication
d. synthesis of head and tail proteins
e. packaging of phage DNA into heads


Ans: c

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