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The life cycle of lytic bacteriophages. A Phage adsorption and DNA injection; B Host genome degradation; C Phage DNA replication; D Appearance of morphogenesis intermediates, including empty heads (proheads); E Packaging of phage DNA into capsids; F, G Phage assembly; H Lysis and release of progeny phage. The time to lysis varies with the phage host system but can be as little as 10 min
