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.
- one of the viral genes codes for a protein that represses most other prophage genes-as a result, the phage genome is largely silent-every time the host divides, it copies the phage DNA and passes the copies to daughter cells (thus propagating without killing the host cells on which they depend). one of the viral genes codes for a protein that represses most other prophage genes-as a result, the phage genome is largely silent-every time the host divides, it copies the phage DNA and passes the copies to daughter cells (thus propagating without killing the host cells on which they depend).