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61temperate region — ocean waters between the 13 and 20°C winter isotherms …
62temperate waters — waters in the region of higher latitudes than tropical latitudes, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the northern hemisphere, and the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the southern hemisphere …
63temperate phages — Bacteriophages that can infect bacteria and establish a lysogenic relationship rather than immediately lysing their hosts …
64temperate phage — A bacteriophage that integrates its DNA into that of the host (lysogeny) as opposed to virulent phages that lyse the host …
65Temperate Zone — Geog. the part of the earth s surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a… …
66temperate zone — noun Those parts of the Earths surface between the tropics and the polar regions …
67temperate glacier — a glacier in which the ice reaches the pressure melting point …
68temperate bacteriophage — a bacteriophage whose genetic material (prophage) becomes an intimate part of the bacterial cell, persisting through many cell division cycles. The affected bacterial cell is known as a lysogenic bacterium (q.v.) …
69temperate virus — see under bacteriophage …
70temperate climate — pleasant weather which is not too humid (or hot, dry, cold. etc.) …