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.
28. The F factor is an episome. This is a piece of DNA that can be integrated within the main chromosome of the bacterium, or able to exist as an independent plasmid. What is the bacterial cell called: when the F factor is in plasmid form? _____ when it lacks an F plasmid? _____ when it is integrated within the chromosome? _____ 29. What occurs in bacterial conjugation? 30.