🔬 Aptitude

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Aptitude: See below…

Discussion

This is from Lwoff (1953), p. 328: "Physiological conditions allowing a lysogenic bacterium to react to inducing agents by the development of phage."

References

  • Lwoff, A. (1953). Lysogeny. Bacteriological Reviews 17:269–337.

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