lysogenic
[ lahy-suh-jen-ik ]
adjectiveMicrobiology.
harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
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How to use lysogenic in a sentence
The first of these, lysogenic or bacteriolytic action, consists in (a) lysogenic action.
Of these the most important are (a) bacteriolytic or lysogenic action, (b) agglutinative action, and (c) opsonic action.
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