Viruses can progress to two possible scenarios after infecting the host cell. Which of the following is characteristic of the lysogenic cycle? Viral DNA is inserted into host DNA, and is replicated when the cell divides.
Viral RNA takes over the host cell, making new host cells.
Viral DNA takes over the host cell, making new viruses that burst out of the cell.
Viruses enter the host cell, and rapidly make copies of the host DNA.

The lysogenic cycle, sometimes referred to as temperate or non-virulent infection, does not kill the host cell, instead using it as a refuge where it exists in a dormant state. Following the injection of the phage DNA into the host cell, it integrates itself into the host genome, with the help of phage-encoded integrases, where it is then termed a prophage. The prophage genome is then replicated passively along with the host genome as the host cell divides for as long as it remains there and does not form the proteins required to produce progeny. As the phage genome is generally comparatively small, the bacterial hosts are normally relatively unharmed by this process.