Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337408332
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 20, Problem 3SQ
Bacteriophages kill their host quickly by ______ .
- a. binary fission
- b. a lytic pathway
- c. a lysogenic pathway
- d. transformation
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