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What do you know about Bacteriophages?


nBacteriophages ( phages ) are obligate intracellular parasites that multiply inside bacteria by making use of some or all of the host biosynthetic machinery . They are viruses that infect bacteria.
Composition of Bacteriophage
nNucleic acid: either DNA or RNA but not both
nds DNA, ss RNA, ss DNA
nunusual or modified bases
nencode 3-5 gene products to over 100 gene products
nProtein: function in infection and protect the nucleic acid
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 2:23 AM

    nice post..

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  2. KatarinaNovember 24, 2010 at 11:56 AM

    Hello, good stuff. Trying to add some of my herpes research including it's immunology to my site (www.latentlucia.com --soon to be transferred from Blogger to WP). Thanks for the good blog! Katarina
    (temporary site at WP):
    http://66.147.244.156/~latentlu

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  3. Dr.Mirza AdnanNovember 25, 2010 at 10:37 AM

    thank you so much. i will check your site soon...M M ADNAN

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