Don't worry, it should be. Your epidermis is the top part of your skin, and your skin is your body's largest and fastest-growing organ. Skin is your body's coat. It protects you. It helps you stay warm when it's cold, and cool when it's hot. Your skin keeps all your insides in, from your heart and lungs to your blood and muscles.
In the other population of cells, the injected phage chromosome turns OFF all the phage genes except one. The single phage chromosome called the prophage now becomes a part of the host chromosome. The bacterium carrying the dormant phage chromosome is called the lysogen.
Phage f1 is a filamentous (rod-shaped) ssDNA phage, with a molecular mass of about 1.6 Ã 10 Da; by weight it is 11.3 percent DNA. The flexible phages are about 850 nm long and 4.3 or 6.3 nm wide. The thousands of identical major coat proteins that make up the sheath are arranged in a fishcale-like Î±-helix.he presence of a properly presented ssDNA in an adhesion zone with thioredoxin and the coat proteins allows for the elongation and secretion of phages. The phage is elongated by continually removing dimers of V and replacing them with the major coat protein. The phage coat consists of about 2700 copies of VIII.