Prophage

Why, on rare occasions, do prophage get excised from the host chromosome? And the purpose of the excision?

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actually... the time when it devides.. as do the go on prophage also depend on the time you took the cells and make the preparation of it. as i know.. the plant cells ussually devide at 09.00 to 10.30. at that time, you may find the highest rate of ...

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... to replication of the virus and subsequently to lysis of the bacterial cell lysogenic cycle: infection with viral DNA leads to replication of a prophage (a molecule of DNA )in the chromosome of the bacterial cell. The prophage is inactive, non-infective, but it will replicate each time the DNA ...

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... our microbiology textbooks. From how I understand it, those deseases are caused by strains of bacteria that have already incorporated the prophage genes. You don't get the bacteria first, then the virus infects it, and then you get the desease. No?

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Does prophage in lysogeny get inactivated? Prophage is a potent phage produced during lysogenic cycle of bacphages. Does potential of a prophage to be a virulent phage get inactivated?

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