The usual term for this is "nonintegrating" meaning the virus (or whatever delivery mechanism) does not insert itself (or anything) into the cell's genome. (Som

The usual term for this is "nonintegrating" meaning the virus (or whatever delivery mechanism) does not insert itself (or anything) into the cell's genome. (Some viruses do this to help them proliferate - and they do it crudely which increases cancer risk, - but some don't because it's added complexity to have this "feature".) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28895845/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28895845/