lytic cycle

the life cycle of a BACTERIOPHAGE in which many new phages are reproduced and the host bacterial cell undergoes LYSIS, the phages entering new bacterial hosts.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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bacteriophage
bacteriophage immunity
burst size
cos
lysogeny
phage conversion
prophage
specialized transduction
temperate phage

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