Question: You identify a lambda phage with a tR 2 that always leads to transcriptional termination, even if the N protein is present. What will be

You identify a lambda phage with atR2that always leads to transcriptional termination, even if the N protein is present.
What will be the effect of this mutation on the life cycle of this phage?
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The phage could enter the lytic cycle but not the lysogenic cycle.
The phage could enter the lysogenic cycle but not the lytic cycle.
This phage could enter either cycle, but during the lytic cycle, phage could not be assembled or packaged correctly.
The phage could not enter the lysogenic or the lytic cycle.

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