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Describe how a lysogenic infection can change into a lytic infection.

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Something can trigger the prophage of the lysogenic infection and it can become active as a lytic infection
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Lysogenic Infection is a viral nucleic acid in inserted in the host DNA, and is copied with it, and is passed down into the daughter cells, which the Lytic Infection enters a bacterial cell, copies itself, and causes the cell to burst
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