What term refers to the series of events that begins with an infection of one cell and ends with the release of progeny phages from broken or open cells?

a. the lysogenic cycle
b. the lytic cycle
c. the citric acid cycle
d. the Krebs cycle


Ans: b. the lytic cycle

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