Sentences with bacteriophage
bac·te·ri·o·phage
B b - For a subset of these viruses, including many tailed bacteriophages and the herpes viruses, the concatemers are cut at specific sites to generate unit-length virion chromosomes.
- Those viruses, called bacteriophages, specifically infect bacteria, capture some of their genes, and transfer the genes from one microbe to the next.
- Suitable vectors are the DNAs of bacterial viruses or bacteriophages which naturally infect bacteria and replicate within them.
- However, another promising approach is to use bacterial viruses knows as bacteriophages to produce vaccines very rapidly and cheaply.