In the 1960s, Werner Arber observed a dramatic change in the bacteriophage DNA after it invaded these resistant strains of bacteria: It was degraded and cut into pieces. In an attempt to explain ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects ... Bacteriophages occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into ...

Students isolate novel bacteriophage from the environment and characterize those phage using current research techniques including electron microscopy and DNA analysis. The genomic DNA from some of ...