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a virus that is parasitic in bacteria; "phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria"
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A phage (also called bacteriophage) (in Greek phageton = food/consumption) is a small virus that infects only bacteria. Like viruses that infect eukaryotes, phages consist of an outer protein hull and the enclosed genetic material (which consists of double-stranded DNA in 95% of the phages known) of 5 to 650 kbp (kilo base pairs) with a length of 24 to 200 nm. The vast majority of phages (95%) have a tail to let them inject their genetic material into the host. ...
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| bacteriophage |
Viruses that infect cells. If alien genes are intergrated into that DNA, it invades into the host cell when in infection and multiplies in the form of viruses.
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| bacteriophage |
A virus that infects and replicates in bacteria. These are either lytic viruses, which always kill the host, or temperate viruses, which can either lyse the host cell or establish a stable relationship in which the bacteriophage genome is stably maintained in the host genome (see also lysogen).
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| bacteriophage |
An ultra-microscopic organism, similar to a virus, that replicates in bacteria, causing lysis of cells.
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