How are the lysogenic and lytic cycles different?

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The Lysogenic Cycle. 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. ... Some viruses first replicate by the lysogenic cycle and then switch to the lytic cycle

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The lytic and lysogenic cycles are different from each other in a fact that in lysogenic cycle genome of virus integrate with the host genome and pass on to the next progeny. In lytic cycle, they replicate and burst out of the cell.

Further Explanation:

Bacteriophages are intracellular viruses that specially infect the host cell. The phage can divide into host cell through two different cell cycles:

Lytic cycle
Lysogenic cycle

In the lytic cycle, they involve the duplication of viruses in the host cell to produce more viruses. After forming viruses they release out of the cell. On the other hand, the lysogenic cycle involve the integration of viral genome inside the host cell genome, infect it from within. They do not release out of the cell. The genome of the viral particle interacts with the host cell and passes on to next progeny.

Thus, the major difference between the lytic and lysogenic cycles is that, lytic cycles involve more direct results in different copies of virus being that are created very rapidly and the cell is damaged. In lysogenic cycle, replication of the viral genome occurs by a usual process of prokaryotic reproduction.

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