LYSOGENICITY

lysogeny, lysogenicity

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

lysogenicity (uncountable)

The property of being lysogenic.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 January 2025

SHTIK

(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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