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prophage

Term: prophage

Literally meaning: ?before the phage?

Origin: Anc Greek

???-/pro-(= towards, in front of, precede)

+ ?????/phagos(=eater) > ??????/ephagon(=indefinite tense of verb "?????"/esthio(eat, devour)

Coined/History

In 1952 by Andre Lwoff (1902-1994). Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (1965), along with Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod for his finding that the genetic material of a virus can be assimilated into bacteria.

Definition

A prophage is the latent stage of a phage in a bacteriuma phage in which viral genome inserted and integrated into the circular bacterial DNA chromosome.

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