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Author: BAUMAN
Publisher: PEARSON
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The viruses that invade the bacterial cell are termed to be bacteriophages. The most common known bacteriophages are T4 bacteriophages. These bacteriophages have a complex icosahedral head that contains the genetic material and tail is a fiber- like hypodermic needle through which they infect the bacteria with their genome.

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