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LYSOGENIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they lysogenize ... he / she / it lysogenizes
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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