Don't worry, it should be. Your epidermis is the top part of your skin, and your skin is your body's largest and fastest-growing organ. Skin is your body's coat. It protects you. It helps you stay warm when it's cold, and cool when it's hot. Your skin keeps all your insides in, from your heart and lungs to your blood and muscles.
In the other population of cells, the injected phage chromosome turns OFF all the phage genes except one. The single phage chromosome called the prophage now becomes a part of the host chromosome. The bacterium carrying the dormant phage chromosome is called the lysogen.
A bacteriophage is the whole virus that attacks bacteria and either goes into the lytic direct attack which destroys the bacterial DNA while the phage uses the cell machinery to replicate, or it inserts its own genetic material into the bacterial DNA in the lysogenic cycle becoming a prophage.onfidence votes 22.7K. A prophage is viral genetic material (DNA) inseted into bacterial DNA so that when the bacteria replicates the virus gets replicated along with the bacterial DNA. Called the lysogenic cycle.