Synonyms for "prophage"

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Related word relations

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5 relation types

derived

1 entries

prophagic

derived from

1 entries

phage

has context

1 entries

biology

is a

1 entries

bacteriophage virus

related to

6 entries

bacteriophagechromosomegenomehostlatentviral

Translations

3 translations across 2 languages.

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Icelandic

2 entries

• dulveira noun (latent form of a bacteriophage in which the viral genome is inserted into the host chromosome)
• forveira noun (latent form of a bacteriophage in which the viral genome is inserted into the host chromosome)

Italian

1 entries

• profago noun (latent form of a bacteriophage in which the viral genome is inserted into the host chromosome)

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