Prophage induction
In the lytic cycle, the virus commandeers the cell's reproductive machinery. The cell may fill with new viruses until it lyses or bursts, or it may release the new viruses one at a time in an exocytotic process.
Is prophage in the lytic cycle?
Under certain conditions, including various stresses causing DNA damages, the prophage is excised and initiates a lytic cycle. Some phages also adopt a pseudotemperate lifestyle, i.e., they generally do not integrate the chromosome of their host and replicate as linear or circular plasmids within the cytoplasm.
Is prophage lytic or lysogenic?
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.
