lysogeny
lysogeny is a 8-letter English word with 1 sense as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. 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"
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