Viernum said, âBlack mambas are one of the fastest species of snakes, reaching slithering speed up to 12 mph [19 kph].â This is undoubtedly fast, but still slower than the myths of them outrunning horses would suggest. Over longer distances, they average about 7 mph (11 kph).
A bacteriophage, or a phage, is a virus that infects bacteria, so these don't infect human cells âthey are very specialised and only infect bacteria. So every bacteria is being attacked by various viruses which are using those as the host that they replicate in.
A bacteriophage, also known simply as a phage, reproduces via lytic replication, a type of viral reproduction that ultimately kills the infected bacterial cell. The reproduction of bacteriophages always involves death of the infected bacterium, when the viruses burst out or lyse their prokaryotic host cell. The five stages of the lytic cycle are attachment, entry, synthesis, assembly and release.