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PHAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria
Example:
phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria
Synonyms:
bacteriophage; phage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("phage" is a kind of...):
virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phage"):
coliphage (a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli)
typhoid bacteriophage (a bacteriophage specific for the bacterium Salmonella typhi)
Context examples:
CRE Recombinase catalyses site-specific recombination between two 34 base pair loxp sites and maintains the phage genome as a monomeric unit-copy plasmid in the lysogenic state.
(CRE Recombinase, NCI Thesaurus)
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