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Reproduction of Viruses The structure of viruses allows them to succeed in their main Did You Know? mission—reproduction. The word reproduce is Lytic Cycle Once attached to a host cell, a virus injects its nucleic commonly used when acid into the cell. The nucleic acid takes over the normal operation of the discussing viruses, but in host cell and produces multiple copies of the virus’s protein coat and the strictest sense, viruses nucleic acid. Once produced, the protein coats and the nucleic acids are do not reproduce. Viruses use the machinery of assembled into new viruses. As the host cell fills with newly assembled the host cell to replicate viruses, it bursts, just like a balloon with too much air. The host cell then themselves by creating an dies, and the released viruses begin searching for the next host cell. This exact copy of the virus, type of viral reproduction is called a lytic (LIT ihk) cycle. The steps of a just as a copy machine lytic cycle for a bacteriophage are illustrated in Figure 7.4. is used to replicate a document. Whatever Lysogenic Cycle Some viruses, such as herpes and HIV, enter the you call it, however, host cell but remain hidden for years. Even though the viral nucleic acid the result is the same: becomes part of the host cell’s chromosome, it does not seem to affect viruses multiply! the functions of the cell. At some point, however, the viral nucleic acid becomes active. It s