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A Microbiologist Isolated a Mutant Strain of E

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A microbiologist isolated a mutant strain of E. coli that is extremely susceptible to bacteriophage infection, by a wide range of bacteriophages. Which of the following genes might she explore as a possible site of the mutation that results in this phenotype?


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