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Medical Definition of Bacteriophage mu
1. An unassigned species of temperate coliphage, in the family myoviridae, composed of a linear, double-stranded molecule of DNA, which is able to insert itself at random at any point on the host chromosome. It frequently causes a mutation by interrupting the continuity of the bacterial operon at the site of insertion. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteriophage Mu
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