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Also Known As phage • bacterial virus

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Dissect the anatomy of icosahedral, rod-shaped, and bacteriophage virus structures in electron micrographs
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Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
A.D. Hershey
American biologist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist