Prophage At Biology Glossary

What is it? A temperate phage genome whose lytic functions are repressed and which replicates in synchrony with the bacterial chromosome. A prophage may be integrated into the host chromosome (as with phage lambda) or exist as an autonomously replicating plasmid (as

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