Bacterial transformation and transduction

What do you understand by the terms bacterial transformation and transduction?

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The bacterial transformation is a procedure in which the cell frees or nacked DNA comprising the genetic information is transferred from one bacterial cell to the other.

In transduction, the bacteriophages acts as a vector transfer a part of DNA from one bacterium (or donor) to the other (or recipient). This is termed as the transduction.

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