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lysogenic
[ lahy-suh-jen-ik ]
adjective
Microbiology.
- harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
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Origin of lysogenic1
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The new virus is lysogenic, which means it invades and replicates inside its host, but usually without killing the bacterial cell.
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This behavior is known as the lysogenic cycle, in contrast to the lytic cycle in which a virus copies itself before bursting out of its host cell and destroying it.
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Viruses with this quality are called lysogenic phages.
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