Bacteriophage in a Sentence
  • Sources include bacteriophage lambda, salmon sperm and even cloned human DNA.
  • Delbrueck chose to use bacteriophage, viruses that infect bacteria and then can multiply very rapidly.
  • This exercise demonstrates the principles of restriction site mapping, using DNA from the lambda bacteriophage.
  • In fact, toxin production is related to infections of the bacillus itself with a particular bacteria virus called a phage (from bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria).