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Difference between virulent and temperate phage

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virulent phage:

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. virulent phage A bacteriophage that causes the destruction of the host bacterium by lysis. Temperate phages, on the other hand, rarely cause lysis.

temperate phages:

   temperate refers to the ability of some bacteriophages (notably coliphage λ) to display a lysogenic life cycle. Many (but not all) temperate phages can integrate their genomes into their host bacterium's chromosome, together becoming a lysogen as the phage genome becomes a prophage.