Question

What Is The Lysogenic Life Cycle Seen In Bacteriophages?

Answer 1

Bacteriophages (literal meaning bacteria eaters) are the viruses for which the natural host is a bacterial cell

Bacteriophages exhibit two types of life cycles namely the Lytic life cycle and lysogenic life cycle.

1. The viruses that kill the host bacterium during their duplication represents the lytic cycle.
2. But few phages do not multiply within the bacterial cell but the phage DNA is incorporated into the bacterial DNA without killing the host. This can pass onto many generations of bacteria due to the multiplication of bacteria. Such a life cycle is known as the lysogenic life cycle.