Noun
a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria
Source: WordNetphage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria Source: Internet
An altogether different phage type, the filamentous phages, make the host cell continually secrete new virus particles. Source: Internet
All of the known temperate phages employ one of only three different systems for their lysogenic cycle: lambda-like integration/excision, Mu-like transposition or the plasmid-like partitioning of phage N15. Source: Internet
An example of a bacteriophage known to follow the lysogenic cycle and the lytic cycle is the phage lambda of E. coli. Source: Internet
Animals are first treated with suspected mutagen, the mouse DNA is then isolated and the phage segment recovered and used to infect E. coli. Source: Internet
As soon as the cell is destroyed, the phage progeny can find new hosts to infect. Source: Internet