It isn\'t easy to be a phage.
In this engaging book, Merry Youle relates some of the tactics used.
The triumphant phage then proceeds with its replicative business.
Of course, the cell resists this hostile takeover in numerous ways, all of which the successful phage overcomes.
To succeed, a phage must encounter, recognize, and enter a particular type of bacterial cell, then coerce it to make more phages rather than more cells.
First, what is a phage? A phage is a virus That infects Bacteria.
It isn\'t easy to be a phage