释义 |
defective bacteriophage de·fec·tive bac·te·ri·o·phagea temperate bacteriophage mutant with a genome that does not contain all normal components and cannot become a fully infectious virus, yet can replicate indefinitely in the bacterial genome as defective probacteriophage; many defective bacteriophages are mediators of transduction. Synonym(s): defective phagede·fec·tive bac·te·ri·o·phage (dĕ-fek'tiv bak-tēr'ē-ō-fāj) A temperate bacteriophage mutant the genome of which does not contain all of the normal components and cannot become a fully infectious virus, but it can replicate indefinitely in the bacterial genome as a defective probacteriophage; many defective bacteriophages are mediators of transduction. |