transduction
/trænsˈdʌkʃən/
noun
- The process of converting one form of energy or signal into another.
- Engineers study energy transduction to design more efficient devices.
- The transduction of sound into nerve impulses happens in the inner ear.
- Signal transduction in cells allows them to respond to hormones.
- In genetics, the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by a virus.
- The experiment demonstrated successful transduction of the gene into yeast cells.
- Transduction can introduce new traits into a bacterial population.
- Bacterial transduction was first discovered in the 1950s.
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