Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Colonization

Synonym: innidiation.

2. The formation of compact population groups of the same type of microorganism, as the colonies that develop when a bacterial cell begins reproducing.

3. The care of certain persons, e.g., lepers, mental patients, in community groups.

genetic colonization, propagation of a gene by a host into which the gene has been introduced, naturally or artificially.