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Lysogeny

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Noun

1. lysogenicity, lysogeny

the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material

Example Sentences:
'when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lysogeny

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noun
the biological process in which a bacterium is infected by a bacteriophage that integrates its DNA into that of the host such that the host is not destroyed

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Lysogeny

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noun
a dormant viral infection of bacteria in which the genetic material of a virus combines with that of a host bacterium

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lysogeny

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n.
The fusion of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage with that of a host bacterium so that the potential exists for the newly integrated genetic material to be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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