Definitaion & Key Points Of Transmission of Genetic Material In Bacteria

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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 chromosome by genetic recombination.
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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