Transduction

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Food Biotechnology

The transfer of DNA sequences from one bacterium to another via lysogenic infection by a bacteriophage (transducing phage).

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

1. Genetic: the transfer by means of a viral vector of a DNA sequence from one cell to another. 2. Signal: any process that helps to produce biological responses to events in the environment (e.g. transduction of hormone binding into cellular events by hormone receptors).

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture