lysogenize

A verb used in microbiology to describe the process by which a bacteriophage integrates its genetic material into the host bacterium's genome, becoming a prophage.

• 🇨🇳微生物学术语，指噬菌体将其遗传物质整合到宿主细菌基因组中，成为原噬菌体的过程。

1. Integrate into bacterial genome C2 formal scientific

   To become integrated into the genome of a bacterium, typically referring to a bacteriophage (virus) that incorporates its genetic material into the host bacterium's DNA.

   • The temperate phage can lysogenize the host bacterium, becoming a prophage.
   • Scientists observed how the virus lysogenizes the bacterial cell, altering its genetic makeup.
   • Under certain conditions, the phage will lysogenize rather than lyse the cell.

   🇨🇳溶原化

   同义词: incorporateintegrate

• lysogenized past participle
• lysogenized past simple
• lysogenizing present participle
• lysogenizes third person singular