What are viral productive cycles?

[thebillsfan]

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and are they only characterized by budding?
are they the only kind of viral life cycle exhibited by retroviruses?

 

[Baboo Bhaiya]

the lytic and the lysogenic cycles I am guessing

 

[thebillsfan]

No, I'm referring to something else. Something about the virus being able to continuously produce progeny without the cell dying?