lysogeny

ly·sog·e·ny  (l-sj-n)

n.

The fusion of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage with that of a host bacterium so that the potential exists for the newly integrated genetic material to be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division.

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Noun

1.

lysogeny - 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" lysogenicity condition - a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition"