Host

host
an organism in or on which a parasite lives
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In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a virus, parasite, mutual partner, or commensal partner, typically providing nourishment and shelter.
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1. The spectrum of strains of bacterial species that a given strain of phage can infect.
2. The range of cells that can act as a host to a virus or bacteriophage.
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Host (biology)
In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a parasite, mutual partner, or commensal partner, typically providing nourishment and shelter.
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host cells that have become infected with virus;
host cells that have become cancerous.
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host -- Organism which serves as the habitat for a parasite, or possibly for a symbiont. A host may provide nutrition to the parasite or symbiont, or simply a place in which to live.
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Host: The organism in or on which a parasitoid lives; a plant on which an insect feeds.
Host plant resistance: The relative amount of heritable qualities possessed by a plant that reduces the degree of damage to the plant by a pest or pests.
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Host-range
The strain or species specificity of a bacteriophage, plasmid, or pathogen.
Hot spot
A region that is especially susceptible to mutations. Mutations occur at such sites at a much higher frequency than most other positions in the genome.
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host
(1) An organism on or in which a parasite lives. (2) A recipient of grafted tissue.
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host. A plant or animal that provides sustenance for another organism.
hypha (plural: hyphae). One of the filaments forming the body, or mycelium, of a fungus.
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host specificity Degree to which a parasite is able to mature in more than one host species.
host An animal or protist that harbors or nourishes another organism (parasite).
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Host. An organism that contains another organism.
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Host strain (bacterial): The bacterium used to harbor a plasmid. Typical host strains include HB101 (general purpose E. coli strain), DH5a (ditto), JM101 and JM109 (suitable for growing M13 phages), XL1-Blue (general-purpose, ...
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The host cell wall to ruptures releasing the newly formed viruses.
Upon entering the cell, the viral DNA may instead, become integrated into the bacterial DNA. It is replicated along with the host DNA when the host reproduces.
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New Host Strains for Stabilization and Modification of YAC Clones
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Athens was host to the 2004 Summer Olympics. Athens was also the host of the 1896 Olympics and of the 1906 Intermediary Olympics.
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Absorb food from a host or from their environment.
All heterotrophic.
Single-celled, filamentous, to multicelled; all eukaryotic.
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To increase the number of copies of a DNA sequence, in vivo by inserting into a cloning vector that replicates within a host cell, or in vitro by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Anaerobe. An organism that grows in the absence of oxygen. See Aerobe.
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Bacteriophage -- a virus whose host is a bacterium; commonly called phage. Barr body -- the condensed single X-chromosome seen in the nuclei of somatic cells of female mammals.
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Epiphyte a plant which uses a rock or host plant merely as a place of residence and obtains its moisture and nutrients directly from the air; an air plant. A type of growthform.
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temperate phage A phage whose DNA may be incorporated into the host-cell genome without being expressed. Contrast with a virulent phage, which destroys the host cell. template A macromolecular pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
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Artificial chromosome A vector constructed from host cell chromosomal elements such as origin of replication, telomeres and centromere (in eukaryotes).
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Its normal host is the hawthorn tree. Sometime during the nineteenth century it began to infest apple trees. Since then it has begun to infest cherries, roses, pears and possibly other members of the rosaceae.
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Phagocytes utilize an NADPH oxidase to generate large amounts of ROS, and exploit their toxic properties as a host-defence mechanism to kill invading microbes.
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In G inversion the orientation of Mu phage G segment determines tail fibre expression and thus host range (E.coli or Citrobacter). A similar variation in tail fiber expression is due to Cin in bacteriophage P.
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A noncellular biological entity that can reproduce only within a host cell. Viruses consist of nucleic acid covered by protein; some animal viruses are also surrounded by membrane.
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viruses - obligate intracellular parasites that require the host cell's biochemical machinery to drive protein synthesis and metabolize sugars.
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For bacteria and yeasts, transformation refers to the techniques of introducing plasmid or other vectors into a host cell.
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A particle consisting of a nucleic acid (RNA or DNA) genome surrounded by a protein coat (capsid) and sometimes also a membrane, which can replicate only after infecting a host cell.
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Bacteriophage: A virus whose host is a bacterium. Also called phage.
Base: See nitrogenous base.
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Virus: A noncellular biological entity that can reproduce only within a host cell.
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Bacteriophage a type of virus that invades lives in and kills a host species of bacterium
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Large segments of DNA, 100,000 to 200,000 bases, from another species cloned into bacteria. Once the foreign DNA has been cloned into the host bacteria, many copies of it can be made.
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TRANSLATION - The process whereby mRNA directs the synthesis of a protein molecule; carried out by the ribosome in association with a host of translation initiation, elongation and termination factors.
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histocompatibility antigens - cell surface glycoproteins that differ from individual to individual; their recognition as foreign by a host organism is responsible for rejection of grafted foreign tissue.
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: Joint evolution of two unrelated species that have a close ecological relationship resulting in reciprocal adaptations as happens between host and parasite, and plant and insect.
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scolex
The head of a tapeworm, found at the anterior end. It has hooks and suckers for attachment to it's host.
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