For Bacteriophage we have terms and definitions in 6 topics. The topics are Bioinformatics, Dna, Genetics, Genome, Hepatitis C and Microbiology.

Bacteriophage (Bioinformatics)

A virus that infects bacteria. The bacteriophage DNA has served as a basis for cloning vectors, and is also utilized to create phage libraries containing human or other genes.

Bacteriophage (Dna)

A virus whose host is a bacterium. Also called phage.

Bacteriophage (Genetics)

A virus whose host is a bacterium; commonly called phage.

Bacteriophage (Genome)

See: phage

Bacteriophage (Hepatitis C)

A very delicate bacterial virus with considerable variation in structure which may attack and destroy bacteria cells under certain conditions; it contains a nucleic acid core and a protein coat.

Bacteriophage (Microbiology)

(simply phage) A virus that infects a bacterium and which is often used in molecular genetics experiments as a vector, or cloning vehicle. Recombinant phages can be made in which certain non-essential l DNA is removed and replaced with the DNA of interest. The phage can accommodate a DNA "insert" of about 15-20 kb. Replication of that virus will thus replicate the investigator's DNA. One would use phage l rather than a plasmid if the desired piece of DNA is rather large. Bacteriophage l and M13 are ones commonly used in cloning and/or subcloning of small genes or DNA fragments in E. coli. Bacteriophage P1 is one that is used for fragments up to 95 Kb in size.

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