Medical Definition of Defective phage

1. A temperate bacteriophage mutant whose genome does not contain all of the normal components and cannot become fully infectious virus, yet can replicate indefinitely in the bacterial genome as defective probacteriophage; many defective bacteriophage's are mediators of transduction. Synonym: defective phage. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defective Phage

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defection
defectionist
defectionists
defections
defectious
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defective bacteriophage
defective interfering particle
defective number
defective numbers
defective on arrival
defective organism
defective phage (current term)
defective pleading
defective probacteriophage
defective prophage
defective verb
defective verbs
defective virus
defective viruses
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defectiveness
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