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Also Known As bacterial virus • phage

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bacteriophage
Study how bacteriophages replicate by injecting nucleic acid into a bacteria cell to create virions
How bacteria exchange genetic information
Dissect the anatomy of icosahedral, rod-shaped, and bacteriophage virus structures in electron micrographs
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Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
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Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
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George P. Smith
American biochemist
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Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
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A.D. Hershey
American biologist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist