transduction

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The process by which host DNA is moved from one cell to another by viruses. Typically this occurs in prokaryotes when a virus accidentally packages host DNA instead of its own and then injects that into another cell.

13 – 3 The viral life cycle, early events
13 – 7 P22 is a lysogenic, double-stranded DNA phage that was important in the development of bacterial genetics
14 – 4 Pathogenic outcomes
17 – 6 Resistance to antibiotics has diminished the effectiveness of antibiotics
18 – 3 Bacillus anthracis is an endospore-forming microbe that can causes a lethal toxic infection called anthrax

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