| TERMS | DEFINITIONS |
| Conjugation | The transfer of genetic material between bacteria through cell-to-cell contact is called bacterial conjugation. |
| Episome | Episome is a plasmid of about 100 kb length
that can integrate itself into the bacterial |
| Hfr | A hfr cell is a ha– dun) with a conjugative plasmid (often F) int :grated into its genomic DNA. |
| Transduction | Transduction is the process by which bacterial DNA is moved from one bacterium to another by a virus. |
| Transformation | Transformation is the genetic alteration of a cell resulting from the introduction. uptake and expression of foreign genetic material (DNA or RNA). |
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