Virus
prophage Audio
pro·phage [ proh-feyj ]
Subclass of:
Bacteriophages
Definitions related to prophages:
  • The genome of a phage which is perpetuated in the host cell by integration into the host chromosome or by plasmid formation.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Genomes of temperate BACTERIOPHAGES integrated into the DNA of their bacterial host cell. The prophages can be duplicated for many cell generations until some stimulus induces its activation and virulence.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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