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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):

lysogeny
    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]