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Clostridium botulinum is made virulent by incorporated prophage genes encoding for the botulinum toxin. what term describes this process?

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The term  describes Lytic phase, lysogenic conversion.

Lysogenic conversion describes the situation in which a bacterial host acquires new traits as a direct result of the expression of  encoded genes.

The alteration of one or more phenotypic traits of a host bacterium as a result of infection by a BACTERIOPHAGE (usually a TEMPERATURE PHAGE). Some temperate phages carry additional genes unrelated to LYTIC or lysogenicity (such as genes associated with virulence, see Occurrence of LYSOGENY). It is replicated and inherited along with the cell's own DNA.

The lysogenic cycle allows a virus to replicate its genome without killing its host. The phage genome replication cycle goes on undetected, without any efforts of its own, using host cell machinery. When conditions become unnecessary , a virus can switch from lysogenic to lytic cycle and come out of the host cell.

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