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  1. What does it mean for a phage to be “temperate” and “siphovirdae”? What is the significance of concluding that the phage you found is temperate and siphovirdae?

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    1. a temperate phage means it can undergo the lysogenic life cycle and a siphovirdae is a family of double stranded DNA viruses. Temperate phages have a significant impact on individual bacterial cells, as well as bacterial clusters.

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    2. a temperate phage means it can undergo the lysogenic life cycle, and siphovirdae is a family of double stranded DNA viruses. Temperate phages have a significant impact on individual bacterial cells, as well as bacterial clusters.

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