Lytic cycle and lysogeny of phages

• �The lytic cycle, which is also commonly referred to as the “reproductive cycle” of the bacteriophage, is a six-stage cycle. The six stages are: attachment, penetration, transcription, biosynthesis, maturation, and lysis.

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• What is the process of lytic cycle?
• In a lytic cycle, the virus introduces its genome into a host cell and initiates replication by hijacking the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of the virus. Once infection is complete, the newly replicated and assembled virus particles are released through lysis of the host cell into the surrounding waters.

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• Step 1: Adsorption. Attachment sites on the bacteriophage adsorb to receptor sites on the host bacterium
• Step 2: Penetration. …
• Step 3: Replication. …
• Step 4: Maturation.
• …Step 5: Release.

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What’s the difference between lytic and lysogenic?����The lytic cycle involves the reproduction of viruses using a host cell to manufacture more viruses; the viruses then burst out of the cell. The lysogenic cycle involves the incorporation of the viral genome into the host cell genome, infecting it from within

Lysogeny of phages