Terms to remember

• Lysogenic bacterium - carries a prophage that possesses the potential to lyse.
• Temperate phage - can produces lysogeny.
• Lysogeny - the biological process in which a bacterium is infected by a bacteriophage that integrates its DNA into that of the host such that the host is not destroyed.
• Virulent phage - causes lysis or death of the host bacterium.
• phage nucleic acid - replicates along with bacterium nucleic acid but does not produce mature phage particles.