How can a productive phage infection not kill a host cell?

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Chapter21: Viruses
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Problem 3VCQ: Figure 21.10 Which of the following statements is false? In the lytic cycle, new phages are produced...
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1. Lytic phages lyse their host cells, whereas temperate phages either lyse their host or integrate their DNA into the host cell’s genome. Prophage DNA often codes for gene products that confer new properties on the host. Filamentous single-stranded DNA phages are extruded from the host cells without killing the cell. 

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