temperate bacteriophage
C49455
concept
A temperate bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria and can alternate between a lytic cycle, destroying the host cell, and a lysogenic cycle, integrating its genome into the host’s DNA and replicating passively.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| temperate bacteriophage canonical | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: temperate bacteriophage
Generated description
A temperate bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria and can alternate between a lytic cycle, destroying the host cell, and a lysogenic cycle, integrating its genome into the host’s DNA and replicating passively.
Instances (1)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| bacteriophage lambda | — |