Identify the correct pair of events when temperate phages infect bacteria.

No prophages are formed

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Bacterial cell undergoes many divisions

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Bacterial cell undergoes immediate lysis

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Prophages are formed

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Solution

The correct options are
B Prophages are formed
D Bacterial cell undergoes many divisions
Temperate phages are the avirulent lysogenic phages, whose nucleic acids get incorporated in the bacterial DNA (lysogenization) .When these phage infect bacteria, the bacterial cell undergoes many divisions and prophages are formed.

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