Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
phage lambda Function:
noun : a bacteriophage (family Siphoviridae) containing double-stranded DNA that can be integrated as a prophage into the genome ofsome strains of E. coli and that is used as a vector to clone DNA from various organisms by replacing nonessential DNA in the bacteriophage with the foreign DNA and introducing the combined DNA into E.coli where it is replicated with the bacteriumcalled also
bacteriophage lambda, lambda, lambda phage
