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Esoteric Mechanisms of Bacteriophage Biology
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- 1. Small membrane protein triggering host lysis timing
- 3. Protein shell encapsulating viral nucleic acid
- 4. Complete genetic material of a bacteriophage
- 7. Scale at which phage DNA injection occurs
- 9. Dormant viral genome integrated into bacterial host DNA
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- 2. Describing phage replication causing host rupture
- 5. Phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer process
- 6. Phage appendages dictating host specificity
- 8. Bacterial surface molecules targeted by bacteriophages
- 10. Enzyme that degrades bacterial cell walls late in infection
- 11. Visible sign of phage-induced bacterial clearing
- 12. Phage dormancy strategy integrating into host genome
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