noun
definition
A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
Examples of phage in a Sentence
The end of the particle attached to the F pilus flares open, exposing the phage DNA.
With the types of DNA used in the kits designed for schools e.g., plant and phage lambda the risks are insignificant.
The process can select even a single binding phage out of ten million others.
Each individual phage expresses 5 copies of the same peptide, and the library contains phage expressing over 10 10 different peptides.
Bacteria phage were found to transfer genes between Erwinia species [4] .
In fact, toxin production is related to infections of the bacillus itself with a particular bacteria virus called a phage (from bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria).