what is bacterial transformation
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In molecular biology, transformation is the genetic alteration of a 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 bacteria 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
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Bacterial transformation is defined as the heritable change in the properties of bacteria caused by the uptake of naked DNA.
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