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LYSOGENIZE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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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