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transformation
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planned genetic alteration of a cell by uptake of genetic material from the environment
Research
740,090 papers- Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 1998
- Transformation of cyanobacteria.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2007
- Optimizing Transformation Frequency of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii Using Agrobacterium tumefaciens.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
- Transformation networks of metal-organic cages controlled by chemical stimuli.Chemical Society reviews · 2022
- Transformation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019
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In this image, a gene from one bacterial cell is moved to another bacterial cell. This process of the second bacterial cell taking up new genetic material is called transformation.
In molecular biology and genetics, transformation is the genetic alteration of a bacterial cell resulting from the direct uptake and incorporation of exogenous genetic material from its surroundings through the cell membrane(s). For transformation to take place, the recipient bacterium must be in a state of competence, which might occur in nature as a time-limited response to environmental conditions such as starvation and cell density, and may also be induced in a laboratory.