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In a lysogenic infection, the viral dna that is embbeded in a host cell's dna is called a(n)

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The correct answer is prophage. In a lysogenic infection, the viral DNA that is embedded in a host cell's DNA is called a prophage. Prophage is actually a bacteriophage genome that is being inserted into the circular bacterial DNA chromosome.
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