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What is the lytic cycle and what are the stages?

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What is the lytic cycle and what are the stages?

I need to know all 5 stages to the cycle and a definition please Slight Smile

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hi, what i know about lytic cycle, The lytic cycle definition states that the virulent phages are those phages that can multiply only on bacterial cells. At the end of their life cycle, they cause cell lysis that kills the host bacteria. The viruses that infect bacteria are called bacteriophages. The most common example of a bacteriophage is the phage T4 and the lambda phage. These phages can both infect Escherichia coli (E. coli). The phages are obligatory intracellular parasite like other viruses and need a host cell to reproduce. The T4 phage replicates by the lytic cycle that eventually causes host cell death and the lambda phage multiplies using lysogenic cycle that does not cause host cell death. There are five stages of lytic cycle, that are explained in the following paragraphs using T4 phage as an example

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