What is meant by bacteriophage genetic recombination?
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Abstract. Genetic recombination in bacteriophage φX174 usually takes place early in the infection process and involves two parental replicative form (double-stranded) DNA molecules. The host recA protein is required; none of the nine known φX174 cistron products is essential.
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Genetic recombination is defined as the rearrangement of genes or parts of genes.
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Bacteriophage λ (lambda) infects Escherichia coli and induces a dramatically increased rate and altered profile of genetic recombination as part of the cycle of infection. The genetic recombination processes augment the host-encoded recombination proteins with phage-encoded recombination proteins, promoting particular recombination pathways. This review characterizes the protein machinery involved in the most important processes underlying λ-mediated genetic recombination.