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Prophage Integrations

Prophage Integrations Definition & Meaning
Prophage Integrations Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Medical Term Prophage Integrations?

The phenomenon by which a temperate phage incorporates itself into the DNA of a bacterial host, establishing a kind of symbiotic relation between prophage and bacterium which results in the perpetuation of the prophage in all the descendants of the bacterium until induction by various agents, such as ultraviolet radiation, releases the phage, which then becomes virulent and lyses the bacterium.

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