lysogenicity

lysogenicity /ly·so·ge·nic·i·ty/ (li?so-je-nis´i-te)

1. the ability to produce lysins or cause lysis.

2. the potentiality of a bacterium to produce phage.

3. the specific association of the phage genome (prophage) with the bacterial genome in such a way that only a few, if any, phage genes are transcribed.

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ly·so·ge·nic·i·ty (ls-j-ns-t)

n.

The property of being lysogenic.

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lysogenicity, lysogeny

1. the ability to produce lysins or cause lysis.

2. the potentiality of a bacterium to produce bacteriophage.

3. the specific integration of the phage genome (prophage) into the bacterial genome in such a way that only a few, if any, phage genes are transcribed; the integrated phage DNA behaves much as any other bacterial gene, including being passed to each daughter cell following DNA replication and cell division.