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溶原菌 (ようげんきん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

溶よう原げん菌きん

Meanings

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noun

lysogen; bacteria carrying a prophage

Technical term in microbiology. Refers to a bacterial cell that harbors a prophage integrated into its genome.

溶よう原げん菌きんは、特とく定ていの条じょう件けん下かでファージを産さん生せいすることがある。
Lysogens can produce phages under certain conditions.

Kanji

溶melt, dissolve, thaw
原meadow, original, primitive
菌germ, fungus, bacteria

Etymology

Compound of 溶 (dissolve, melt) + 原 (origin, source) + 菌 (bacterium). The term is a direct translation of the English 'lysogen', where 'lyso-' refers to lysis and '-gen' to producing.