Learning Objectives for "Bacteriophage Life Cycles: The Lysogenic Life Cycle"

After completing this section you should be able to perform the following objectives.

 

1. Describe the lysogenic life cycle of temperate phages (including spontaneous induction).

2. Define the following:

a. temperate phage
 b. lysogen
c. prophage

 

 

 

Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
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Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.

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Last updated: Feb., 2020
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