bacterial lawn plate - A nutrient agar plate covered in a thin film of bacteria., capsid - The protein coat of a virus., cross-sectional area (of a cylinder) - The area of a circle cut at right angles through a cylinder. It is calculated as πr2, where r is the radius of the circle., lysis - When the cell membrane of a cell breaks open, releasing everything inside the cell., lysogenic pathway - The pathway in a virus life cycle where the virus genetic material inserts into the cell’s genetic material and is replicated each time the cell divides., lytic pathway - The pathway where a virus enters a cell, takes over the cell’s replication process to produce more viruses, and causes lysis of the cell as the new viruses are released., nutrient agar - Agar containing nutrients; used for growing cells, such as in bacterial lawn plates.,

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