Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
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Multiplicity of infection (moi) is a measure of how many phage particles infect a given bacterial cell within a population.
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A value of MOI = 1 implies that on an average there is a single host cell for a single phage particle.
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If 100,000 viral particles are added to one million host cells, the MOI is 0.1 means lytic cycle. High MOI means lysogenic cycle.