Bacteriophage Synonyms

băk-tîrē-ə-fāj
A virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. phage

Words Related to Bacteriophage

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. baculoviruses
  2. rhodococcus
  3. adenovirus
  4. dsrna
  5. RNA/DNA
  6. lectins
  7. plasmid
  8. vaccinia
  9. adhesins
  10. lentivirus
  11. glycoprotein
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Bacteriophage Sentence Examples

  • Sources include bacteriophage lambda, salmon sperm and even cloned human DNA.

  • Delbrueck chose to use bacteriophage, viruses that infect bacteria and then can multiply very rapidly.

  • This exercise demonstrates the principles of restriction site mapping, using DNA from the lambda bacteriophage.

  • In fact, toxin production is related to infections of the bacillus itself with a particular bacteria virus called a phage (from bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria).