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UV Reactivation At Biology Glossary

What is it? A phenomenon in which survival of an ultraviolet-irradiated phage is greater upon infecting a host that has also been irradiated with UV than upon infecting a host that has not been irradiated with UV. The increased survival in the UV irradiated host is d

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