a: bacteriophage ~
b: self-replicating viral smart bomb
What:
"A bacteriophage is like a self-replicating viral smart bomb, a virus capable of infecting and destroying specific bacterial cells. Bacteriophages attach to bacteria and inject their DNA into the cell. The DNA instructs the bacteria to produce millions of new virus cells, causing the bacteria cell to burst. With concerns about increasing resistance to antibiotic therapy, there has been an upsurge recently in bacteriophage research."
Useful?
Writer: Dyke Hendrickson
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Date: Dec 14 2014 8:13 PM
# 6728 Critique Analogy