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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lysogeny is a noun meaning "the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lysogeny come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.