The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

Lytic cycle/infection: Virus reproduction that destroys its host cell to release virion progeny. Lysogenic cycle/infection: Non-bactericidal phage infection with phage genome replication but ...

If the infecting phage is virulent, the infection follows a lytic cycle, or for temperate phages, a lysogenic cycle occurs ... to create phage-sized genomes in a permissive bacterial host or via ...