What is the difference between transformation and
transduction?

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What is the difference between transformation and transduction?..

Answer / nasreen

In transformation the donor dna is directly transferred
to recipient where as in transduction dna is transferred
from donor to recipient through viral phages.

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What is the difference between transformation and transduction?..

Answer / navedha

Transformation is the transfer of bacyerial genes involving
free DNA.Transduction is the transfer of host genes from
one host to another host by a virus.

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What is the difference between transformation and transduction?..

Answer / nikhar

transformation is the processes in which bacterial machinery take up the gene from the environment..
in transduction phage particles mediate the transfer of genes from one bacteria to another.

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What is the difference between transformation and transduction?..

Answer / rajan bansal

transformation is gene

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