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Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Higher Education (us)
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Hepatitis B virus or HBV is the causative agent of the Hepatitis B. It is a potentially life-threatening disease that affects the liver. It is one of the important global health problems. This infection results in chronic infection and the infected people are prone to the risk of death due to liver cancer as well as cirrhosis.
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Ch. 26.1 - List some characteristics used in classifying...Ch. 26.1 - Prob. 2CCCh. 26.2 - Prob. 1MICh. 26.2 - Why do you think T4 evolved to initiate DNA...Ch. 26.2 - What function does HMC glycosylation serve?Ch. 26.2 - Explain why the T4 genome is circularly permuted.Ch. 26.2 - Prob. 1.2CCCh. 26.2 - How is a prophage induced to become active again?Ch. 26.2 - Describe the roles of cII, CIII, repressor (CI),...Ch. 26.2 - How do the temperate phages Mu and P1 differ from...
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