Can someone explain the benifits of each cycle- lytic cycle and lysogenic cycle of bacteriophage reproduction?
Lytic Cycle 1. The phage lands on the host cell, and using 140 ATP’s in its tail fibers, injects its nucleic acid core into the bacterium. 2. The host’s DNA is cut up and destroyed by the enzymes produced by the host from the new DNA. 3. The now unassembled nucleotides are reassembles into phage DNA, which produces copies of the capsid. 4. The genes also produce the enzyme lysozyme, that digests the bacterial cell wall, causing the newly assembled viruses to escape. This is the way viruses reproduce. The only benefit is to the virus since the bacteriophage dies as a result. Lysogenic Cycle: Viruses that reproduce without killing their hosts are called temperate viruses. These viruses have 2 alternate forms of reproduction. The lytic cycle or the lysogenic cycle. The process begins very similar to the lytic infection or inserting the genome into the host’s genome and becoming dormant. During the lysogenic cycle one of the temperate phage’s genes remains active. It codes for a repressor
