Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A virus that infects and lyses certain bacteria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria
Etymologies
Examples
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In 1917 Felix d'Herelle created the term bacteriophage to describe viruses that could infect bacteria.
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T4 is a bacteria-eating virus called a bacteriophage, or phage for short.
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The clincher for me was an optional evening laboratory in bacteriophage genetics taught by Bob Edgar and Charlie Steinberg.
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The bacteriophage is not a materialized hereditary property, and
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The DNA of the temperate bacteriophage is a circular - that is, closed - structure.
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It thus appeared that the development of the prophage into bacteriophage is a mortal disease.
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The bacteriophage is "liberated" only if the bacterium is
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Around 1940 Delbrück, Hershey and Luria became interested in bacteriophage, a type of virus that infects bacteria, rather than ordinary cells.
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Benzer38 with bacteriophage, is that of the detailed correlation of fine structure of the gene in terms of mutation and recombination, with its fine structure in terms of activity.
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The word bacteriophage is derived from the Greek "phagein," meaning eater of bacteria.
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