Question

A researcher infects a bacterium with a bacteriophage and notices that the infection does not immediately bring about the destruction of the host cell. Instead, the phage's genetic material is copied whenever the host reproduces. Which viral replication cycle is described here?

Answer 1

Answer is lysogenic cycle.

Step-by-step explanation:

Lysogenic cycle is a situation where a virus replicate its DNA using a host cell. And it involves the following stages, attachment, penetration, uncoating, biosynthesis, maturation and release.

This cycle is one of the two viral reproductive cycles, the other is lytic cycle.