Giraffe Characteristics. The giraffe is the tallest living animal which is instantly recognizable by its exceptionally long neck. Adult males stand 15 â 19 feet (4.6 â 6.0 metres) tall, whereas females are shorter at 13 â 16 feet (4 â 4.8 metres) tall.
Bacterioplankton are bacteria and archaea, which play an important role in remineralising organic material down the water column (note that many phytoplankton are also bacterioplankton). Plankton are found throughout the oceans, seas and lakes of Earth.
Report Abuse. A bacteriophage (from 'bacteria' and Greek phagein, 'to eat') is a virus that infects bacteria. The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage. Like viruses that infect eukaryotes (plants, animals and fungi), a large diversity of phage structures and functions exist.edit] Replication Bacteriophages may have a lytic cycle or a lysogenic cycle, however a few viruses are capable of carrying out both. In the lytic cycle, characteristic of virulent phages such as the T4 phage, host cells will be broken open (lysed) and suffer death after immediate replication of the virion.