Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of causing or undergoing lysis.
- adjective Of or relating to lysogeny.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
lyso-genetic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or causing
lysis - adjective of, or relating to
lysogeny
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of producing or undergoing lysis
- adjective of or relating to lysogeny
Etymologies
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Examples
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The two most dominant are the lytic and the lysogenic (latent) cycle.
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Since these investigators had encountered defective lysogenic strains among their transductants, we felt that such strains should be included in the collection of lambda prophage mutants under study in our laboratory.
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One bacterium thus divided 19 times without liberating bacteriophages, and the daughter bacteria were still lysogenic.
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There were many other investigations on growth factors for flagellates and ciliates with regard to growth factors, loss of function, and physiological development until the time when Lwoff began working on the problem of lysogenic bacteria.
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The observation of isolated bacteria led him to the conclusion that lysogenic bacteria did not secrete bacteriophages, that the production of bacteriophages led to the death of the bacterium, and above all that this production must be induced by external factors.
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This is why, under the action of inducers, the immunity of the lysogenic bacteria to the superinfective homologous phage is lost.
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The solution, the lysogenic bacterium, was enslaved as a typing tool for the identification of the bacterial families.
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When a nonlysogenic bacterium is infected by a temperate phage, it will either undergo lysis or become lysogenic.
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He first studied the properties of lysogenic bacteria and demonstrated their
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Consequently, I took a lysogenic bacterium and immersed it in a drop of culture medium.
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