LYSOGENIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lysogenize mean? 

• LYSOGENIZE (verb)
  The verb LYSOGENIZE has 1 sense:

1. become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium)

  Familiarity information: LYSOGENIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYSOGENIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lysogenize    ... he / she / it lysogenizes   
Past simple: lysogenized   
Past participle: lysogenized   
-ing form: lysogenizing   

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)