Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material;
- Example: "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"[syn: lysogeny, lysogenicity]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lysogenicity
n 1: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a
phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects
a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be
incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"
[syn: lysogeny, lysogenicity]