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"Provirus" Definition

noun

The precursor or latent form of a virus that is capable of being integrated into the genetic material of a host cell and being replicated with it.
A form of a virus that is integrated into the genetic material of a host cell and by replicating with it can be transmitted from one cell generation to the next without causing lysis.
The genetic material of a virus as incorporated into, and able to replicate with, the genome of a host cell.

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