Team:LCG-UNAM-Mexico:Population
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- | Some bacteriophages are parasites of bacteria, and as such, must prudently exploit their resources (in this case bacteria) to avoid killing | + | Some bacteriophages are parasites of bacteria, and as such, must prudently exploit their resources (in this case bacteria) to avoid killing bacterium before reproduce enough copies of itself. It has been suggested that parasites have evolved to tune their degree of virulence (amount of damage the parasite causes to the host) [1] to achieve a balance between rapid reproduction and a prudent use of resources. It is this fine balance that has the phage as a strategy |
we intend to play the break to increase the virulence of phage so fast to kill the bacteria that | we intend to play the break to increase the virulence of phage so fast to kill the bacteria that | ||
the phage is unable to assemble their own copies. | the phage is unable to assemble their own copies. |
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