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What are the advantages to a virus of the lysogenic cycle?.

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Lysogeny is of benefit to the virus, allowing the genetic material to persist in the absence of a virus manufacture. Lysogeny can also be beneficial to the host bacterium. The primary benefit to bacteria occurs when the integrated viral DNA contains a gene that encodes a toxin.

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