Transfection vs. Transformation

Transfectionnoun

(molecular biology) The introduction of foreign DNA into a eukaryotic cell.

Transfection

Transfection is the process of deliberately introducing naked or purified nucleic acids into eukaryotic cells. It may also refer to other methods and cell types, although other terms are often preferred: is typically used to describe non-viral DNA transfer in bacteria and non-animal eukaryotic cells, including plant cells.

Transformationnoun

The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

Transformationnoun

A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.

Transformationnoun

(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.

Transformationnoun

(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.

Transformationnoun

(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.

Transformationnoun

Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.

Transformationnoun

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition.

Transformationnoun

Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.

Transformationnoun

Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.

Transformationnoun

The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.

Transformationnoun

A change in disposition, heart, character, or the like; conversion.

Transformationnoun

The change, as of an equation or quantity, into another form without altering the value.

Transformationnoun

a qualitative change

Transformationnoun

(mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system

Transformationnoun

a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure

Transformationnoun

(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA

Transformationnoun

the act of changing in form or shape or appearance;