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LYSOGENIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lysogenize mean?
• LYSOGENIZE (verb)
The verb LYSOGENIZE has 1 sense:
1. become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium)
Familiarity information: LYSOGENIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they lysogenize
... he / she / it lysogenizes

Past simple: lysogenized

Past participle: lysogenized

-ing form: lysogenizing





Past simple: lysogenized


Past participle: lysogenized


-ing form: lysogenizing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "lysogenize" is one way to...):
integrate (become one; become integrated)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
lysogenization (the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome)
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