EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The lysogenic cycle is a method by which a virus can replicate its DNA using a host cell.

Detailed explanation-2: -The lysogenic cycle: The phage infects a bacterium and inserts its DNA into the bacterial chromosome, allowing the phage DNA (now called a prophage) to be copied and passed on along with the cell’s own DNA.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the lytic cycle, the virus attaches to the host cell and injects its DNA. Using the host’s cellular metabolism, the viral DNA begins to replicate and form proteins. Then fully formed viruses assemble. These viruses break, or lyse, the cell and spread to other cells to continue the cycle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bacteriophages (phages for short) are viruses that infect bacteria. The life cycle of bacteriophages may be lytic, resulting in cell lysis and release of progeny or lysogenic, a stable latent state in which the viral genome is integrated into the bacterial genome.

Detailed explanation-5: -The lytic cycle involves the reproduction of viruses using a host cell to manufacture more viruses; the viruses then burst out of the cell. The lysogenic cycle involves the incorporation of the viral genome into the host cell genome, infecting it from within.