what is bacteriophage
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bacteriophage is a virus infect the bacteria and also replicate inside it.
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Bacteriophages are referred to as a certain kind of viruses which infect bacteria.
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- Bacteriophages were discovered by F.W. Twort and F.H.D'Herelle in the years 1915 and 1917 respectively.
- Bacteriophages are also known as "Phages".
- Coliphage is a kind of bacteriophage or virus that has been found to infect E.coli bacteria.
- Cyanophages are a kind of bacteriophages or viruses that have been found to infect blue-green algae or cyanophyceae or cyanobacteria.
- Double strtanded DNA in cyanophages and cyanophages themselves, were discovered by Safferman and Morris in the year 1963.
- Sea water has the capability to hold one hundred million bacteriophages per one millilitre.
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