Microbiology 9th Edition by Laura Black, Jacquelyn Black

Exercise 31

In the lysogenic cycle of bacteriophages, which of the fol lowing is true?
(a) Lysogeny is the term applied to a temperate phage that does not replicate itself independently and does not lyse the bacterial host cell.
(b) Phage DNA is incorporated into the host bacterium's DNA, at which time it is called a prophage.
(c) Temperate phages can be replicated either as a pro phage along with bacterial chromosomal replication or can suddenly revert to the lytic cycle by replicating themselves and assembling into new phages.
(d) All the above are true.
(e) a and c only.