While lysogeny refers to the process in bacteriophages where the viral genome integrates into the host bacterial chromosome, latency is the analogous process in animal viruses where the virus remains dormant inside the host cell without active replication.

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Lysogeny is the process in which a host bacterium is infected by a temperate phage, leading to the integration of the phage genome into the host's chromosome where it remains latent or inactive.

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