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In the lysogenic cycle, the viral DNA or RNA enters the cell and integrates into the host DNA as a new set of genes called prophage. That is, the viral DNA becomes part of the cell's genetic material. It does not destroy the host cell.

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When a virus enters a cell it?

Hijacks the cellular machinery and enters a lytic or lysogenic lifecycle.


Type of infection in which a host cell makes copies of the virus indefintely?

The Lysogenic Cycle. The virus' DNA will integrate itself into the host cell's own DNA, such that the cell will continue to make copies of the virus for as long as it survives (and if it passes down its DNA to daughter cells).


In what cycle of the viral replication does the virus the host cell?

During the cycle of viral shedding, the virus has made copies of itself and the host cell is no longer useful. The host cell then dies, and the new virus cells then must find a new host.


How are the lysogenic and lytic cycles different?

causes Disease


What is a virus that doesn't immediately effect a hosts cell functions?

Lysogenic virus.


Does a lysogenic virus inject their DNA into the host cell?

Yes


How is a lysogenic virus different from a lytic virus?

Unlike lytic viruses, lysogenic viruses do NOT lyse the host cell right away where as lytic cells do.


Does SARS go through a lytic or a lysogenic cycle?

The virus that causes AIDS, HIV, is lytic in nature. Once it attaches itself into a host cell, it will go about integrating its genetic material into the host cell and use its machinery to force the cell to make copies of the virus. Additionally, the viral cell will kill the host cell in the process.


An infection in which DNA of a virus is embedded into a host cell and replicates with host DNA is called what?

A Lysogenic Infection


When virus enter a lysogenic phase it mean?

the virus is integrate inti the DNA of the host cell and is latent.


Which virus would infect cells and be able to produce more virus particles?

Some viruses have a lytic cycle or a lysogenic cycle. The difference in these two cycles is that the cell dies at the end of the lytic cycle or the cell remains in the lysogenic cycle. The virus remains "hidden".


What are two ways a virus can enter a host cell?

Viruses can cause lytic infections or lysogenic infections. When a virus enters a cell to make copies of itself, causing the cell to rupture, that is called a lytic infection. A lysogenic infection is where a virus incorporates itself into the DNA of the cell it invades and replicates its genetic code.