S: (n) destiny (destiny%1:18:00::), fate (fate%1:18:00::) (the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)) "we are helpless in the face of destiny"
S: (n) roots (roots%1:26:00::) (the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage) "his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots"
S: (n) lysogeny (lysogeny%1:26:00::), lysogenicity (lysogenicity%1:26:00::) (the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material) "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"