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词汇 bacteriophage
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Definition of bacteriophage in English:

bacteriophage

noun bakˈtɪərɪə(ʊ)feɪdʒbækˈtɪriəˌfeɪdʒ
Biology
  • A virus which parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it. Bacteriophages are much used in genetic research.

    〔生〕噬菌体(多用于遗传学研究)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Suitable vectors are the DNAs of bacterial viruses or bacteriophages which naturally infect bacteria and replicate within them.
    • Those viruses, called bacteriophages, specifically infect bacteria, capture some of their genes, and transfer the genes from one microbe to the next.
    • For a subset of these viruses, including many tailed bacteriophages and the herpes viruses, the concatemers are cut at specific sites to generate unit-length virion chromosomes.
    • The genome contains four sections inserted by bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria and splice their genes into the bacterial DNA.
    • However, another promising approach is to use bacterial viruses knows as bacteriophages to produce vaccines very rapidly and cheaply.

Origin

1920s: from bacterium + Greek phagein 'eat'.

Definition of bacteriophage in US English:

bacteriophage

nounbækˈtɪriəˌfeɪdʒbakˈtirēəˌfāj
Biology
  • A virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it.

    〔生〕噬菌体(多用于遗传学研究)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Suitable vectors are the DNAs of bacterial viruses or bacteriophages which naturally infect bacteria and replicate within them.
    • For a subset of these viruses, including many tailed bacteriophages and the herpes viruses, the concatemers are cut at specific sites to generate unit-length virion chromosomes.
    • Those viruses, called bacteriophages, specifically infect bacteria, capture some of their genes, and transfer the genes from one microbe to the next.
    • However, another promising approach is to use bacterial viruses knows as bacteriophages to produce vaccines very rapidly and cheaply.
    • The genome contains four sections inserted by bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria and splice their genes into the bacterial DNA.

Origin

1920s: from bacterium + Greek phagein ‘eat’.

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