MCAT Question A Day - 7/22/13
Shingles, a disorder localized in the host’s nerve cells, results from the reactivation of the same viral species that previously caused chicken pox in that individual. This situation, involving a “latent” virus in human cells, is analogous to which of the following in bacterial cells?
A. Temperate phages
B. Lytic phages
C. Transformation using plasmids
