GENES IX, is not only just a textbook that every molecular biological student must read, you may also have fun from the tome-sized reading.
Just now, I was reading Chapter Phage Strategies. there are two ways for some kinds of phage to survive: lysis or integration. In case of lysis, the host cell is broken and new phages are released out, and in case of integration, the phage DNA/RNA becomes one part of its host bacteria – thus, such host bacteria will not “die”; they may continue to live as before.
Then, the small accident happened. A lots of easy-to-get illustrations are one feature of the book; naturally, there is one picture about the two ways of phage life.
However, the most funny thing was the sentence whose background was marked with green.
“bacteria live happily ever after.” (on page 351, GENES IX, Benjamin Lewin)
How can such a funny sentence be here? Maybe it just a common expression in English, I'm not sure about it. Yet the sentence itself isn't wrong or problematic, here I can only say, I'm so happy that I could encounter such funny thing during my scientific reading!