LYSOGENICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lysogenicity mean? 

• LYSOGENICITY (noun)
  The noun LYSOGENICITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LYSOGENICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYSOGENICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

lysogenicity; lysogeny

Context 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

Hypernyms ("lysogenicity" is a kind of...):

condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)

Derivation:

lysogenic (capable of producing or undergoing lysis)

lysogenic (of or relating to lysogeny)