A phage infects but does not destroy the host immediately is known as
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A bacteriophage attaches itself to a susceptible bacterium and infects the host cell. ... Bacteriophages occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into the genome of new host cells. This process is known as transduction.
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The lysogenic cycle allows a phage to reproduce without killing its host. Some phages can only use the lytic cycle, but the phage we are following, lambda ( λ), can switch between the two cycles..
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