Immunity At Biology Glossary

What is it? (i) The resistance of a lysogen to superinfection by a phage with a similar regulatory mechanism (also called homoimmunity). For example, expression of the cI repressor by a lambda prophage prevents expression of genes in a secondary infection if the cI p

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