-- card: 90392 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 89904 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 2665 -- name: -- part 1 (button) -- low flags: 00 -- high flags: 8003 -- rect: left=157 top=315 right=337 bottom=257 -- title width / last selected line: 0 -- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0 -- text alignment: 1 -- font id: 0 -- text size: 12 -- style flags: 0 -- line height: 16 -- part name: SUB HEADINGS ----- HyperTalk script ----- on mouseUp go to card id 83406 end mouseUp -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- BACTERIA/VIRUSES -- part contents for background part 2 ----- text ----- The incorporation of a viral DNA molecule into a bacterial DNA molecule permits the viral DNA to be replicated many times over as the bacterium divides. This helps to spread the viral DNA throughout the culture. At some point in the future, the prophage may become dislodged from the bacterial DNA whereupon it replicates itself many times and enters the normal lytic pathway.