Usually the host DNA is damaged or fragmented during a lytic cycle
Step-by-step explanation:
The virus affecting an organism can affect it in 2 ways one is a lytic cycle and a lysogenic cycle. The lytic phase or the lytic cycle is a virulent phase in which an organism has infected the host severely causing a damage to the host DNA and enabling replication of its own progenies, whereas in a lysogenic cycle the virus DNA integrates with the host DNA thereby co existing with it.