lysogenicity

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lysogenicity - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lysogenicity
      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]