Bacteriophages engage in two interactive cycles with bacteria.What are these cycles?
A)insertion and replication
B)auxotrophic and prototrophic
C)heteroduplex and homoduplex
D)lytic and lysogenic
E)negative and positive

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Bacteriophages engage in two interactive cycles with bacteria: the lytic cycle and the lysogenic cycle. In the lytic cycle, the virus takes over the host cell's machinery to produce more viral particles until the host cell lyses and releases the new viruses. In the lysogenic cycle, the virus inserts its genetic material into the host cell's DNA, where it may remain dormant for an extended period, replicating along with the host cell's genome, until it is triggered to enter the lytic cycle.

Bacteriophages Engage in Two Interactive Cycles with Bacteria