Viruses are ubiquitous and can be found in various environments, including ocean waters where they play significant roles in marine ecosystems, such as regulating bacterial populations. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically infect bacteria, demonstrating that viruses can indeed infect these microorganisms. Furthermore, viruses are known obligate intracellular parasites; upon infecting a host cell, they hijack the host's cellular machinery, including its transcriptional and translational processes, to replicate themselves, thereby altering cellular activity.