lysogeny
[lahy-soj-uh-nee]
- the state of being lysogenic.
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Origin of lysogeny
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lysogeny
- 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
(lī-sŏj′ə-nē)- 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.
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