What is lysogeny?



What is lysogeny?..

Answer / Ram Updesh Singh

Lysogeny refers to the state of a bacterial or viral cell where the genetic material of a virus (or phage) integrates into the host chromosome. The virus remains dormant and does not lyse (break open) the cell, but can be activated later.

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